Each morning I awaken with a strong pull to write for many reasons.
First is my mission to inspire the world to acknowlege this fact:
If all people have the right to be treated with respect, that includes children. I mean, once adults stop bullying children, children will stop bullying each other.
Children, who absorb respectful attitudes at home develop self respect.
Children who develop self respecting attitudes offer mutually respectful attitudes more readily than those raised with authoritative put downs, too subtle to identify but not lost on instinct, which picks up on subliminal messaging as in ... I own the high road, you follow my lead or else ...
Most parents, who want to raise leaders have no clue how often squashed, young spirits turn into followers. On the other hand, parents, who offer astute choices that inspire young think tanks to develop decision making skills—which focus upon improving quality of life for everyone concerned—raise leadership material. Astute leadership skills are absorbed from astute leaders, who consciously role model with an eye on generosity of spirit and consistency.
Most parents, who want to raise leaders have no clue how often squashed, young spirits turn into followers. On the other hand, parents, who offer astute choices that inspire young think tanks to develop decision making skills—which focus upon improving quality of life for everyone concerned—raise leadership material. Astute leadership skills are absorbed from astute leaders, who consciously role model with an eye on generosity of spirit and consistency.
Children, who feel respected at home, learn to respect others by following their chief role model's example for this reason: Little ones learn by mimicking, as in monkey see monkey do. Little ones who fear punishment may fall into line—until resentment builds past breaking points, causing emotional dams to burst apart—and then look out!!!
Though do as I do encourages mimicking, do as I say or be punished works for only so long before power struggles intensify, wrecking our most deeply valued relationships.
It's a fortunate child, indeed, who is taught to voice opinions, which are seriously considered at family meetings where a talking stick is used to move discussion from one person to another, peaceably, instead of using sticks and stones to insult and batter young minds into resentful submission, culminating in power struggling rebellion, driven by the spirit's innate need for independence. Whew!
It's a fortunate child, indeed, who's misbehavior receives time out, meant to calm tempers down, rather than a punitive time out, which has no purpose other than to incite resentment to rise to new heights.
Though do as I do encourages mimicking, do as I say or be punished works for only so long before power struggles intensify, wrecking our most deeply valued relationships.
It's a fortunate child, indeed, who is taught to voice opinions, which are seriously considered at family meetings where a talking stick is used to move discussion from one person to another, peaceably, instead of using sticks and stones to insult and batter young minds into resentful submission, culminating in power struggling rebellion, driven by the spirit's innate need for independence. Whew!
It's a fortunate child, indeed, who's misbehavior receives time out, meant to calm tempers down, rather than a punitive time out, which has no purpose other than to incite resentment to rise to new heights.
I write, daily, in hopes of encouraging adults throughout the world to learn how to develop mutually respectful family bonds rather than tying a child's self esteem into tight knots of submissive stress. As that statement offers an apt description of my main purpose in writing this blog, here is what my mission aims to change throughout the world at large: By way of word of mouth from home to home, on block after block, in towns, villages, states ... nation by nation—78, so far, and counting—my mission aims to inspire our generation to fill so many, young, impressionable minds with self respecting attitudes that our next generation of leaders will grow up to reflect mutual respect when various cultures commune in hopes of seeking solutions to conflicts, which have led thousands to lose life and limb fighting in war after war.
Double Whew!
Look at it this way: If we can't attain mutual respecting attitudes at home, how can we hope to respect each other's differences, nation to nation?
By way of creating and teaching five simple communication tools, which have encouraged attitude changes in thousands of adults who've chosen to enroll in my classes over these past thirty-four years, I'm aiming to 'speak' to millions from the comfort of my home, by way of my blog. :)
Double Whew!
Look at it this way: If we can't attain mutual respecting attitudes at home, how can we hope to respect each other's differences, nation to nation?
By way of creating and teaching five simple communication tools, which have encouraged attitude changes in thousands of adults who've chosen to enroll in my classes over these past thirty-four years, I'm aiming to 'speak' to millions from the comfort of my home, by way of my blog. :)
If attitude is everything, then children, who feel respected and who have absorbed a healthy respect for parents and siblings, are apt to grow up to be leaders whose attitudes reflect mutual respect—more naturally than most.
In hopes of conveying that balance between developing respect for one's own needs while also respecting the needs of others in bite sized pieces, I FEEL driven to write posts concerning self respect leading toward mutual respect, every day. :)
In hopes of conveying that balance between developing respect for one's own needs while also respecting the needs of others in bite sized pieces, I FEEL driven to write posts concerning self respect leading toward mutual respect, every day. :)
As an added bonus to me, each time a train of thought comes straight from my core, I come to recognize vulnerabilities within myself of which I was unaware. I consider that a bonus, because common sense suggests that we can't strengthen vulnerabilities of which we're unaware. So though the teacher in me sits down to write, every day, the student inside my mind grows more deeply self aware, post by post. And with depth in self awareness, some aspect of my life in need of strengthening, improves, yet again.
Whereas to preach proves ineffective, all around ... to teach from yesterday's experience is to learn where need for improvement exists, today :)
At some point, I came to see that my mission to influence world peace and my personal quest for inner peace prove one and the same, suggesting that my drive to write has dual purpose, every day :)
Whereas to preach proves ineffective, all around ... to teach from yesterday's experience is to learn where need for improvement exists, today :)
At some point, I came to see that my mission to influence world peace and my personal quest for inner peace prove one and the same, suggesting that my drive to write has dual purpose, every day :)
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