When we have a child we get to choose what to name our baby and how to feed our baby and how to dress our baby. We have unlimited choices on how to make that beautiful gift become a happy healthy being. Some have different ways that work for them. Some have different priorities.
When you live in a different geographic location from another you find your priorities or values can be drastically different from one another.
In caring for children and helping families for over 20 years I have learned one strong lesson. Everything I see is a lesson. I learned from others mistakes and I seen what works well first hand and what doesn’t. I’m not perfect by any means and I didn’t create perfect beings but I did learn that happiness should be the one thing we teach children to strive for. Not money not fame not marriage or status. Happiness!!! Teach the children to be kind and respectful and to find what makes them happy.
Let’s work towards something better where our children learn to do what makes them happy as an individual. Let’s teach our children that how we treat our neighbors and peers is top priority and let’s also teach them that when we receive negative we fuel it with positive or turn away. Not all negative can be fixed which is also a lesson. Negative teaches all of us what we do not desire. Negative teaches us how to appreciate good.
A parent with this mindset can teach their child so much. In fact good lessons like this can be more important than science and history lessons. So what do our children really need to learn?? How to be happy!
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