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It is easier to build up a child than it is to repair an adult............ Choose your words wisely.

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so true Ann x

Wise words Ann.

A few more on that theme..................................


“If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn . . .
If a child lives with hostility, he learns to fight . . .
If a child lives with fear, he learns to be apprehensive . . .
If a child lives with pity, he learns to feel sorry for himself . . .
If a child lives with ridicule, he learns to be shy . . .
If a child lives with jealousy, he learns to feel envy . . .
If a child lives with shame, he learns to feel guilty ...

BUT

If a child lives with tolerance, he learns to be patient . . .
If a child lives with encouragement, he learns to be confident . . .
If a child lives with praise, he learns to be appreciative . . .
If a child lives with acceptance, he learns to love . .
If children live with approval, they learn to like themselves..
If a child lives with honesty, he learns what truth is . . .
If a child lives with fairness, he learns justice . . .
If children live with recognition, they learn to have a goal.
If children live with sharing, they learn to be generous.
If a child lives with security, he learns to have faith in himself and those about him . . .
If a child lives with friendliness, he learns the world is a nice place in which to live . . .”

? Dorothy Law Nolte, Children Learn What They Live: Parenting to Inspire Values

Its been 27 years Gwyn .. since i saw all those lines together.. i was with my daughter at her first check up with my granddaughter ..never forgot them

So true Ann ..

jgee..

Perhaps this is what they should teach in schools to prepare them for parenthood .

it's a long time since i saw that as well a friend of mine had it written on a poster in her kitchen when all our children were small..

~~~~~~~~~ to Joan x

A poster that should be in all staff rooms of schools and nurseries etc,