I really loved SueBE’s advice in her post from praypower4today. I had never looked at relationships with people in that light. Thanks. SueBE, for such wise counsel.
Maybe it’s because Michelle Obama is a mom but she always gives the best advice. Way back when my 6’1″ kiddo was a toddler, I read a really great piece of parenting advice. Don’t tell your toddler not to do something. Instead tell him what to do. One is holding him down. The other is, God willing, lifting him up.
When he got involved in swimming, I watched him work with a variety of coaches. The best gave them positive tips. “You’ll be faster if you remember to…” “You won’t have to work quite as hard if you hold your hand like this.” The funny thing? The best coaches were usually parents. When the boys worked with one of these parent coaches, they excelled.
Of course, there were those other coaches. “That’s all wrong. Don’t do it like that.” Do I have to explain how little progress was made with…
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Ha! My mum used to tell me what NOT to do, every time she thought I was about to do something stupid. She’d say “Jane! Don’t… oh dear.” The thing was, even at the age of four, being warned against something only made me curious to try it 🙂
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Don’t we call that rebellion? I was a complacent little beggar. Now I wish I had been a little more rebellious!
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If you’d rebelled, you’d have had to live with the results of your actions. I didn’t know it at the time, but all my troubles were the results of rebellion of one kind or another. I acted on impulse, while you thought about your actions. seems to me that the bad things that happened in your life were all down to bad luck. You have a rebellious mind, but you make good decisions.
All the same, it’s a shame you never knew the thrill of wrapping chewing gum round your neck and having it painfully scrubbed off, or having to be cut out of a highchair at the age of eight. Mum was right when she said I was too big for it 🙂
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LOL! Does having to have gum cut out of your hair count? The ice didn’t work! 😀
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So succinctly put too!
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I really like the Obamas – both of them. Such heart-centred, genuine people
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