Teach your children to be Unique by simply being themselves
We need to establish some things that should be stopped in every household
- Stop comparing your children to their siblings, cousins, colleagues or even your younger self!
- Stop pushing and stressing them toward things they don’t have passion for, simply to fulfill your old unmet dreams which don’t belong to their type of dreams!
- Stop stereotyping them based on your perspective to life, because you know what, they belong to a totally different and
much more younger life than yours!
Most of us live with unfinished issues from our childhood which were mainly caused by our closest circle of family members, teachers or sometimes friends.
These issues may have been caused for many reasons some of which could be:
- When they called us a name we hated.
- When we were compared to our brother, sisters, cousins or even classmates.
- When we were asked why we weren’t as pretty as our parents!
- When they decided that we were losers simply because we didn’t attend a certain college, work in a certain place, succeed in sport or because we didn’t marry and have kids before a certain age!
- A genuine authentic advice to every parent, grandparent, aunt/uncle, teacher, coach…..etc, to stop ruining pure little souls by your judgments, hurting words disguised in a form of joke or with questions that should not be asked.
THINK
T: is it True?
H: is it Helpful?
I: is it Inspiring?
N: is it Necessary?
K: is it Kind?
If it isn’t all of the above, please don’t say it.
Don’t forget that your words can be a great reason why a child could turn out to have a great self-esteem and a balanced character, or they can be the sword that kills their uniqueness or their chances of having a good life!
“The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice”
Peggy O’Mara
Dina Adel,
Personal Transformational Coach