Our children may pass us but we need to be able to help them find that doorOur children may pass us but we need to be able to help them find that door.
Posted by My Soul Delighteth on Saturday, December 1, 2018
How My son has already passed me
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about, you always want your children to do better than what you did. I’m a simple person, and I was actually very proud of
What I can do to help our children?
Build on their Strength
I was talking with my brother a couple of weeks ago. We talked about how we should really help our children. One of the things we discussed and probably the biggest thing we thought is to really look at their strengths. We need to search out their strengths and help them develop them. For example, my parents were really good at this. I love music. I loved performing, playing, listening, etc. Growing up, I had a lot of concerts, but I can’t name even one time that my mom missed a concert or a musical. NOT ONE. When I was able to excel at work, I had bosses who saw my strengths and build those up while maintaining my weaknesses. It’s the same thing with our children if we want them to grow the most or the best or them to be able to achieve what they want to be is that we have to build on their strengths.
Give Support
Another thing in connection with building on their strengths, they supported me in every endeavor that I tried. And they didn’t let me quit very easily. It’s one of those things where yes let’s try it out, but if it doesn’t work for you, that that’s one thing if you just don’t want to do it because you’re lazy which, I am kinda lazy in some ways.
But they were able to push me, not to the point of force because that can be a very negative thing. But, they need to be able to try it out to see if they do like it or if they don’t like it, and if they do like it
They expect perfection, make sure they know perfection is necessary
But I think he wanted perfection. I think that’s one thing that we’re facing right now with him. But, because if he’s not perfect at it it doesn’t really want to finish it out or continue with it. And that’s one thing I think we need to work with him on that because it may not be perfect, but start sloppy and then get better at it. That’s how it always works in everything. Because if we think everything needs to be perfect, we’ll never get anything done.
Conclusion
My one biggest takeaway for this is that I want to make sure that, us as a group, as a community that we can be able to push, help our children in finding their strengths and have them grow from there because you can’t make a fish climb a tree but you can for sure make sure that the tank’s big enough for him to be able to swim. Anyways, I hope this helped out.
Your Brother in the Gospel
Tyler Smith