You know when you see a really moving meme or quote regarding parenting and it triggers you? You feel it deeply within and think to yourself "tomorrow I'll put this into practice, tomorrow I'll do better". Then you save it and implement it for a few days and eventually forget about it? I know the best way to practice these things long term is to keep revisiting them and seeing them over and over until the practice becomes second nature, forming a new habit. The following quotes will be written here, in my journal, and as affirmations on cards around the house. I'm going to turn these quotes into habits, join me! 1. If you have told a child a thousand times and he still doesn't understand, it is not the child who is the slow learner. -Walter B. Barbe 2. If you manipulate, coerce, and bully your children, you will have no power at all. If you lead with humility, gentleness, and by example, you will need no power at all. -William Martin 3. I honor the divinity, spirit, God within my child. 4. You must first teach a child she is loved, only then is she ready to learn everything else . - L.R. Knost 5. Respecting a child teaches them that even the smallest, most powerless, most vulnerable person is worthy of respect, and that is a lesson our world most desperately needs to learn. -L.R. Knost 6. This moment is more precious than you think. - de la Vega 7. The sign of great parenting is not the child's behavior, the sign of truly great parenting is the parents behavior. - Andy Smithson 8. Little eyes watch what we do more than little ears hear what we say. It is how we live our lives, not how we demand they live theirs, that has the most impact on who they will become. -L. R. Knost 9. You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. -James D. Miles Below is a downloadable file you can print and paste around your house or in your journal.
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AuthorI am wife and mama to 3 beautiful kiddos. We live in Maine on a bunch of land where we homeschool. |