Deserving of a Gold Medal
There are a lot of times when the truly impressive efforts over the years go almost unnoticed and taken for granted and no gold medal or award of recognition is given even though it is deserved.
Certainly those efforts yield better results in life, career and influence, but if not for our kind words of encouragement little else might be said about the patterns of our children and family members.
My oldest daughter is certainly deserving of a gold medal for her living patterns while growing up. She was a wonderfully delightful child, a gifted student and never strayed from her goals and determination to excel as a person.
My youngest two girls are following in her footsteps as strong students with great personalities filled with happiness and love.
Each is no less deserving of a gold medal for their efforts and hard work than any athlete. However, their reward will eventually come in a better career, higher income and a solid fulfilling family life. I couldn’t be more proud of all three if they had true Olympic gold medals hanging around their neck.
As parents you should celebrate the living efforts and victories of your children and family members. Take the time to place them on the family winner’s podium and acknowledge the quality results they are getting.
Sometimes it’s a special dinner just for them or perhaps a minor reward of something that brings them happiness just to say thank you for being a quality individual that isn’t afraid to work hard to achieve success.
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Safest Kid Pool on Earth
Many of the patterns that lead individuals down the pressure and distraction filled path of living also apply to human society structure.
The patterns are simply on a larger scale.
Individuals sometimes evolve into personal patterns that begin to make their life so complicated that they don’t have the hours available to address these self-imposed things to do.
Society has also fallen into a process of believing that more complex is always better. More complex is simply more complex and doesn’t equate into a better way. In fact, many of the patterns of our society have become so diluted and complex that the original intended purpose can no longer be achieved.
Rules become too stringent, laws become too layered and processes become so complicated that people cannot determine how to use or apply them or they are rendered ineffective.
These are well intended developments by people who have become blind over time to the fact that constantly increasing detail doesn’t always improve.
When I was a child our local swimming pool had one lifeguard for the entire pool. In fact, I was a lifeguard years later in my teens. As a lifeguard one sat ever diligent to any situation that might arise and only acted if needed. Otherwise the people swam and had a good time and dove off the 1 and 3 meter diving boards with screams of delight.
I recently sat at a local swimming pool and watched the people interact with the lifeguards. There were 8 lifeguards on duty around the pool area each with 4 foot long yellow safety floats. Children were not allowed to slide or dive into the deep end unless each took a swimming test beforehand.
Of course diving boards have been all but outlawed now because they have been deemed too dangerous and an insurance burden.
People were only allowed to swim in specific directions and the air was filled with toots and whistles of direction from the lifeguards who resembled traffic officers as they gestured from elevated perches.
The kid pool was a 32 by 35 foot area with water depth from 1 inch to 10 inches at its deepest. There were 3 lifeguards with floats stationed around this tiny kid pool that were quick to tell any violator not to swing, hang, run, dance, throw water, enter from an improper direction or any number of other rules.
Keep in mind that it took only 3 to 4 strides to reach any child in water barely above the ankles of the average adult.
The result was an almost empty pool. Within an hour or so the lifeguards had succeeded in running almost everyone out of the pool.
The people either sat on recliners and enjoyed the sun or simply wandered off seeking other things to do. The process of swimming had become daunting and almost painful under the incessant glare of the lifeguards.
The young children who once were laughing and splashing water were safe because they sat staring at the water from a distance not daring to go in.
Now, I’m certain the extra safety measures and rules were intended to make the experience safer for children and families, but the patterns had become so overbearing that people simply gave up on swimming.
Is this what we want for the improvement of our society?
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Whoopi and the Word
Today I saw Whoopi Goldberg make an interesting reference to a word so dangerous to young people, in fact all people, that it can change the course of an entire life.
That word is Stupid.
Young children believe in the words of adults. They are supposed to. This how they learn and get their words of guidance.
When an adult tells any young child or teen that they are stupid there is a chance that the young person hasn’t developed the reasoning to grasp the use of that word enough to realize that is not a TRUE reflection of who and what they are.
They truly believe they are stupid and this may inhibit their motivation and ambition for personal effort and growth. Plus each child will have their own view of what the word stupid means, a childlike view that may be much more than what the adult realized or meant.
In essence, be very careful of the words you choose to use and how you say them to people especially young people.
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Building Blocks of Science
Don’t underestimate the importance of building blocks and games that relate size and quantity for very young children. They are not JUST playing they are learning relational standards.
Any toy or game that makes the child exercise his or her mind on size, direction and amount is building the basic skills of math and science.
Encourage your children into play that stretches their mind and imagination while offering basic skill set development for the later subjects of formal education.
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The Good Parent
Want to learn how to take the best care of your children and family? There is one important thing that you absolutely must do to be the best parent that you can be for your children.
Take care of yourself.
Start to focus on taking care of your health and wellbeing because you simply cannot take care of someone else or a family if you are run down and sick.
Children don’t understand and aren’t even aware of how they drain the energy from parents as you chase them about doing so much for them. As youngsters their batteries never seem to run out of energy and they recharge quickly after sleep.
As an adult with living responsibilities more demands are placed on your mind and body and it is vital that you set aside some downtime to relax and also get lots of proper rest.
When the parents are sick the family is sick and cannot function smoothly.
Be a good parent and learn to take care of yourself.
Your family will thank you for it.
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