Here you will find poems for children and poems about children.
Also we have adoption poems, poems about twins, a poem for a newborn baby and that poem for a special niece or nephew.
Below in our Children Poems List we have a poem titled Children Learn What They Live which is a really good one.
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If a child lives with criticism,
they learn to condemn.
If a child lives with hostility,
they learn to fight.
If a child lives with ridicule,
they learn to be shy . . .
May God, who loves all children
in a very tender way,
Protect and guide you
with His care, day after day . . .
Though you're not flesh of my flesh nor bone of my bone,
I proudly consider you to be my own . . .
Now I lay me down to sleep.
I pray Thee, Lord, my soul to keep . . .
Now I lay me down to sleep.
I pray Thee, Lord, my soul to keep.
If I should die before I wake . . .
There's two to wash, there's two to dry,
There's two to argue, there's two to cry.
One's in the mud having a ball,
The other has a crayon -
just look at the wall . . .
There's two to wash, there's two to dry,
There's two to argue, there's two to cry.
One's in the mud having a ball,
The other has a crayon -
just look at the wall . . .
My dear and precious niece
You're more than words can say.
And you just get dearer
every passing day . . .
May God, who loves all children
in a very tender way,
Protect and guide you, my niece,
with His care, day after day . . .
May God, who loves all children
in a very tender way,
Protect and guide you, my nephew,
with His care, day after day . . .