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June 19th, 2006
Family Issues
Good Morning,
It’s such an odd feeling this morning. As the first Monday morning of the kids’ summer break, they are all still home and in bed. I normally don’t get to start working quite so soon and with the whole house so blissfully quiet! Ah yes… quietly sipping my coffee just before the little one wakes up and runs through the house waking the others up and inspiring everyone to celebrate the wonders of Sesame Street and Sprinkler hoses.
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Quote of the Week:
Phrases and their actual meanings: "My teacher has never liked me.” Expect a phone
call before lunch from the teacher informing you that your child has been launching
hot dogs by compressing them inside a small Thermos and then removing the lid quickly.
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"Most of the important things in the world have been accompanied by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." – Dale Carnegie, author
"The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he
will try. I would never promote to a top-
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Feature Article of the Week:
Teaching Personal Choice
Years ago when my teenagers were still very young toddlers, I used to devour stacks
of library books. I was trying to learn everything I could about parenting and how
to break the dysfunctional cycles of my own childhood. One of the books I came across
was about how to make sure your kids turned out to be super smart successful types.
I wasn’t so much thinking that I would push them into becoming doctors and presidents
so much as I just thought that if they were really smart, then they wouldn’t repeat
my mistakes. The book wasn’t at all what I thought it would be. It was not a step-
The book gave the following types of examples to illustrate the point. When your child comes home from school with bad marks on their report card, you cannot allow the child to make the excuse that the reason their grades are bad is because the teacher hates them and is always grading them unfairly. When they aren’t good enough to make the soccer team, you cannot allow them to say that it’s because the coach doesn’t recognize talent. These things may be true, but that doesn’t really matter. There will always be bosses and other authority figures who don’t recognize talent and who don’t like us. We still have to do our best and we still have to earn a paycheck. The teacher isn’t being graded, the child is. It’s up to the child to earn those grades even if it means catering to the teacher’s particular whims as to how the work should be presented to them. Adults have to learn how to get promotions and pay raises despite the fact that bosses are too busy or too political to always make the right choices. It’s your report card. It’s your position on the soccer team. It’s your promotion. It’s your pay raise. You are the one who wants it. You are the one who is ultimately responsible for making it happen. The teacher, coach, or boss is simply an obstacle that you have to work around.
The other idea was that we shouldn’t allow our children to settle for less then their best just because the other kids don’t work at their full potential. It was an expanded version of “if all of the other kids were going to jump off of a bridge, would you do it too?” If all the other kids are flunking, are you going to flunk too? If all the other employees are without promotions and pay raises, are you going to go without too?
We live in a time when a lot of people think that smothering the kids with love and understanding is all it takes to get them to grow up happy and bright. All that does is let them know they are loved. It doesn’t teach them how to get what they want out of life. Wealthy families teach their children how to earn money, how to spend money, how to invest money, how to control others with money, how to uplift others with money, and how to live the life of a wealthy person. Whiners teach their children how to whine that nothing is their fault and how to become victims of life. Drug addicts and alcoholics teach their children how to hide from life. Middle class families teach their children how to play it safe, don’t risk too much, and don’t waste too much. Intellectual families teach their children how to think for themselves. Religious families teach their children how to pray. Adventurous families teach their children how to play.
We teach our children by role modeling what we really believe. If I smoke a pack
of cigarettes every day and drink half a bottle of wine every night while I’m telling
my children to stay off of drugs, you can pretty much bet that the kids are going
to see me as a hypocrite. They learn what we verbally teach them, but they decide
if it’s valid information by watching us put it into action. If I say the words,
“I love you,” but don’t spend any quality time with them, then there’s room for doubt.
If I tell them to take accountability for their own actions, but then I constantly
whine about how everybody is always holding me back from succeeding at my goals,
then they aren’t going to really learn the lessons of self-
You can be comforting and understanding when they come home broken hearted because they didn’t make the team, but you still have to plant that seed that it’s up to them to work harder, faster, stronger, smarter. If they really want that goal, then they are going to have to seriously buckle down and earn it. The worst thing you can do is simply hand them success on a silver platter. They won’t have any idea how to succeed after you’re gone. In theory, some day our children grow up and leave home to become productive members of society. How will they ever succeed at anything if we don’t teach them how to stick to a goal and work hard until it’s completed? The most important gift we can give them is lessons in tenacity, determination, and the incredible pride that comes from working hard at a goal and finally achieving it. We must role model the same thing for them.
My kids have watched me work at self-
Copyright 2004, Skye Thomas, Tomorrow’s Edge
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Skye Thomas is the CEO of Tomorrow’s Edge, an Internet leader in inspiring leaps
of faith. She became a writer in 1999 after twenty years of studying personal growth,
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