Children change our lives. With them you clearly understand how time is running. With them you can clearly see the world around you and you start to notice things that you did not pay attention to before. With them life takes on special value, we are more pleased, we experience, dream and empathize.

 Children are the meaning of our life, our joy, our happiness and our future! A child is a part of you and is your loved one!
What a joy when a child is healthy, smiling, has a good appetite and sleeps well! What happiness, when he takes the first steps, pronounces the first sounds and gives you his smile.

To my daughter...

I'm 37 and you're 5. You're a little, restless, why! Sincere, open, loving. You are so MINE! And it's so scary that someone or something can hurt you. I want to protect you. How to teach, how to respond in difficult situations ... A series of difficult choices. Power, which is so difficult to apply.
In these five years we have travelled with you a long way. We learned to be together as one whole and to be apart from each other. Together we passed through crises, rising to the next steps in development. We learned to understand each other without words and to negotiate using speech. I'll tell you honestly, there were periods when it was very hard. Sometimes fears, fatigue, irritation, anger and even boredom arose. Sometimes I felt myself in a cage and dreamed of how I would ever get out of it. But I looked at you, my girl, and saw how you need me, loving and accepting. I understood how you needed me and it made me work on myself, change, learn and grow up. Never before did I think that it was your childhood that would make me really grow up! 

Do not forget that children are sensitive and very vulnerable. Protect your children, praise them more often and tell them you love them. Remember - you will not spoil the child's love! Having surrounded the child with love and care will give him a feeling of confidence, tranquility and security. A child who was not deprived of parental love in childhood will grow up to be a cheerful, successful and happy person!
Let your child grow in love and understanding! 

I wish to share my love with every child and support every parent in their hard times! 

Please help me to raise money for the great Ormond street hospital and sponsor my Skydive on 12th August 2017, Shotton Airfield,Durham DH6 2NH.
Please visit my fundraising page https://www.justgiving.com/olga-ilyina

Please give generously and help raise as much as possible for the children.
Many thanks for your time to read my story.

With a little help, we can do great things!

Olga Shamanina from Premier Inn London Rainham