Eliza has given no interest in babies and dolls. She would pass right by them not giving them a second look. Choosing animals as her place to focus her love and affection. I have noticed a change in her recently. She has been asking to have a baby doll. {This after I gave her three dolls away because she insisted that she was never going to play with them and didn't want to keep them.} She suddenly wants to take care of them and clothe them and play with them and feed them and love them. Then today she said she wants to grow up quickly and "stay a grown up forever". This again was odd behavior for her. Normally her mantra is, "I don't ever want to get old. I want to stay a kid forever." - just like Peter Pan. So I inquired why she would want to grow up so quickly. "So I can have a baby and name it and change it's clothes and love it. And I won't ever get mad at it."
Someday my baby girl will have a baby of her own. One day she will be a wonderful mother. The instincts she has within her, that are starting to manifest themselves now, will someday dominate her actions. When indeed she does have a baby of her own, those instincts will be the one thing that helps her know what to do when she first lays eyes on her own precious child. No matter what I teach her or who influences her over her life, her natural instinct to know how to be a mother will be what matters the most.
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