The children's daycare is in the building. This sign was near the bathrooms. The usher gave me permission to take a picture.
I thought to myself... I wish I had that on my wall growing up...
I wish I had that at home on my wall even now.
Dear Ladylee,
I love you with an everlasting love...
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The words fed to a child, whether positive, affirming, and loving or negative, rejecting, and cruel, will affect them and their future. They will continue along to feed themselves the same words they heard as a child. I heard negativity as a child and like a salmon swimming upstream, it is a long and arduous process to undo the damage. I face this challenge every day.
ReplyDeleteRobin you are correct. At 43, I still cringe at certain things said when I made mistakes. It takes a lifetime for the damage to be undone and some never recover. SMH.
ReplyDelete@Robin and Shai... So I see you too were thinking along the same lines as I was, hunh?
ReplyDeleteYes! I wished the record in my head from earlier years was a repeat on positivity. SMH. To have someone tell me all of that would have made a world of difference.
ReplyDeleteA few years ago at church, there was a little spotlight video on the classes they had for special needs children, and they found that what helped them the most was for the teachers to give them daily affirmations. Somehow, positive thoughts about themselves helped them improve and just think well of themselves. One of them was "I am annointed and appointed to do great things in my life."
DeleteOne lady said her child didn't have much to say, but he knew his affirmations and could tell you what he thought about it all.
I was wondering... Now why couldn't I have had something like that at that age?
Doggonit.
Let's not even talk about the requirement of the school kids to have their own businesses. It was odd watching little kids talk about their business models. I had to keep myself from being depressed. Where on earth would I be if I was even the least bit business minded when I was that age?
Doggonit. Again and again.
Oh gurl. You must be in my head sometimes. LOL.
DeleteI used to think of folks who would have enterprising minds and negotiation skills wondering where they get that from. SMH.
Every morning, before they leave for school, I say with the Littles
ReplyDeleteI am God's child and he loves me. I am smart, I am kind, and I am a leader. We used to add I am the head, not the tail. Jacob likes to say he's the head, not the tail or the shoe. :)
I'm also believer of the power of words on our spirits. I figure I spend enough time in the day fussing, correcting, etc. I am really trying to consciously speak positive affirmations into their heads, if only when they start the day.