Welcome

Introduction to the book

I’ve always believed that from any tough situation, something good will come!

This book is the proof…

On September 12^th, 2013, I became a mother to a beautiful, big, blue-eyed boy. He remained without a name for nearly a month while my husband and I waited for some clues and guidance from him as to his name.

We called him Everest.

Now, Everest had different plans to those that we had for him. I imagined he’d be the perfect Buddha baby. I’d had a beautiful, easy pregnancy, and a natural birth. I’d done everything a girl could do from yoga, meditation, and every other spiritual tool I’d come across. I considered myself firmly committed to raising a ‘conscious child’. So when Everest decided not to sleep for the first 18 MONTHS of his life, I thought I might just go crazy.

To him, his name was ‘Never Rest’, not Everest!

In my attempt to get him back to sleep, even just for a few hours at a time, I tried everything – including these prayers and poems. The one thing that did seem to settle him, make him feel loved, safe and able to rest was myself and my husband telling him these special words. While my face and body revealed the impact of no sleep, my heart and soul soared at the opportunity to instill some extraordinary beliefs, life skills, reminders and guidance for this little soul.

Today, age 3 and a bit, Everest sleeps beautifully.  But still, every night before bed, he asks me for a prayer. Or two. ‘One more, Mummy.’ ‘Last one’. ‘Last more!’

One day, on a plane flying back from the US to Cape Town, I wondered, would other children love these as much as Everest?

This book is a humble attempt to instill joy, love, confidence and a reminder of their amazing presence, into the youngest of hearts. I believe when we treat children of all ages with honesty, respect, and true awareness, they flourish and thrive.

This book is for anyone: parents, grandparents, godparents, teachers, friends – all the guardians of the world’s children who have the magical task of guiding and reminding them of their true divine nature. Feel free to read them at bedtime or any time, change words around, add to them, and ask the child what they mean to them. This book is yours to explore.

Some prayers are happy and amusing, some are more serious and deep. Some rhyme beautifully, some are just simple to read. Some touch upon important themes children face, some give them skills to navigate this world.

They are ‘spiritual’ in nature, meaning they are imbued with love, optimism, humor, honesty and common sense. They are not for or against any religion. They do not promote or offend anyone’s nature of God, a Divine Being, Life or the Universe. However, I hope they leave an impact on everyone who reads or hears them by expanding our hearts, offering insight into why we are on this planet, what’s important and what’s possible.

While I have spoken these words to my son since his birth, I hope this book will be loved and appreciated by kids of all ages, even when they can read it themselves! So if you have or know a child from 10 years to birth, or even about to be born, enjoy these words.

So many of us are looking for ways to keep the purity and joy of our kids alive, while still preparing them for this world. We want to keep their spirit, their potential and their innate wisdom intact. We want to share lessons that we’ve taken a lifetime to learn. Many of us walk a spiritual path in some form or another. Many of us would like to be that example and share it with our children.

This book hopes to give you a tool to do just that.

Lots of love,
Ariane