Today’s post is to encourage parents who are caring for younger children.
If you have been following me you will know that I have four young adult children between ages 35 and 20.
When my kids were little I used to worry a lot about their future.
Especially my youngest because he seems not to be interested in school or anything for that matter other than playing games.
Today he is 20 and he has found what he wants to do.
He is doing well in his chosen field and is very happy and hardworking. I was only worrying for nothing!
Please let’s focus more on the good things our children do.
Praise them when they are good and say positive things to them often. Remember that your 10-year-old or your nine-year-old is not gonna stay like that forever and your teenagers are not gonna be like this forever.
Whatever you think they are now it’s not what they’re gonna be in future they’re gonna be great men and women of God.
They’re gonna be the CEO of a company, a leader of an organization an App creator, an inventors, a leader or president of a country, someone’s husband or someone’s wife.
They are not gonna stay like this forever so I’m asking you Parents if you have a nine year and he’s not listening to you if you tell him to do something a hundred times, please I’m not saying you shouldn’t be strict but let’s think about our feelings because our response matters in how we deal with our children. Let’s stop taking their behaviour personally because it’s not about us. Remember they are kids and we are adults.
Let’s try to show them empathy and stay calm whenever they misbehave. Because things will not work when we react to everything they do. And we are not teaching them anything when we do that.
When we start seeing and treating our 9-year-olds as a CEO of a big company and a future leader we will start to see changes in how they behave towards us.
Think of them as future leaders and say kind positive words about them.
I know this is hard especially if you have more than one child, but I know we can do this. It takes a lot of practice to stay calm amid a storm 😀
Talk to God about it, and ask for wisdom and knowledge on how to look after your precious little ones after all we are only their caretaker.
Speak positive words to them rather than negative words.
I believe when we change how we treat and act around our kids they too will change.
Your children will turn out well in the future, but you need to be more loving and support them in whatever they are doing.
Just thought I should share this today ni 🙏❤️
Sending you so much love ❤️
Olu
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