Jun 30 2008
Encouragement, Encouragement, Encouragement
I don’t always do what I say but one thing I’m striving to do is always encourage my children.
I try hard to bite my tongue and not criticize but rather praise to build their self confidence. There are others who may criticize, but as their mom I want to be their biggest fan. I want to praise their artwork like a masterpiece, listen to their song and give them a standing ovation, and especially catch them doing something good and praise them for it.
Some thing are obvious to praise but with others I need to make the conscious effort to give praise. For instance today, they all had their first swim lesson of the year. I decided to make it a point of telling them all how wonderful they did. We can praise the little day to day things as well as the major events.
I try and encourage them in their personal walk with God as well. Not that I want them to do it to make me happy, but just to let them know that I see and I think they’re on the right track. Like when I pick my son up from school and he tells me what he read in his Bible and how it’s helped him (he packs his Bible in his bookbag and yes it’s public school:).
Sometimes it’s just nice to hear that you’re doing well or that someone is watching and notices you. I’m going to try and harder to praise and encourage my children.
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Your kid packs his bible in his book bag to public school, and reads it thereby helping himself? Wow that is amazing that a child has the ability to do that himself. I mean thats what Christianity’s all about, and yet most practitioners can’t do that for the life of them. Thats very cool, you should be proud!
Regarding praise, I personally found that I received to much praise when I was younger and eventually I came to not trust my mother with anything because she couldn’t be objective. But I’m an extreme case :D, just good to keep in mind!
Thanks. I’me very proud of boy. My prayer is that he continues on.
May be extreme case, but still good point, praise should still be honest:)