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Just heard this listening to Brian Houston at Hillsong Church. What an interesting comment that is – he’d heard someone else say it. Makes you stop and think, doesn’t it?
How happy are your children? And is there anything you can do to improve their state of mind?
Whilst our kids are young we have a lot of input in their lives but as they grow older and the external influences increase, our own influence on their lives changes considerably.
Perhaps whilst they are still young we need to concentrate more on helping them have a happy outlook on life which should set a pattern for them as they grow older.
Which leaves me to ask you a simple question. How happy are you?
Great question Kathie, something we should all ask ourselves routinely.
It’s amazing for me to see how most of the times children emulate their parents, so we need to do our best to be healthy and happy. Since watching “the secret“, if anyone in our house is down and about, I make them sit down right down all the good things that are currently happening in their life, and than watch the movie.
Usually it does the trick. I even over heard one of my daughters say something along the lines of “I’m very happy and cheerful at all times, because I don’t really care to watch the secret anymore.
And I say: “What ever works right?”
But is that a cover up or is your daughter really happy? I haven’t seen the movie although I’ve heard about it. However I have learnt about a lot of things that have the same thought process, such as the RAS or the reticular activation system – what you think about you are drawn towards, and so on.
If your daughter makes a choice to be happy, then that’s great, because it is about choices and it’s good if she has learnt that lesson in her life.
I’m fortunate to have all four kids that are pretty happy and stable.
My husband travels a lot, so it was pretty much my way or the high way. It was four of them against one of me, so I was always very strict and old fashioned, but at the end of the day, my husband always said:
“You do your best and than you just have to be lucky…..”
I won my lottery when I married the love of my life and was blessed with my kids.
You and me both then – won the lottery that is. And I believe strict is definitely the way to go – children need to learn to respect authority and responsibility early in life so they can be equipped to make good decisions when they‘re older.
My hubby travelled a lot when the girls were younger but secured a new job once they were getting into their teens so was home a lot more. By that time I’d established a business at home anyway so I was home fulltime for them all.
5 girls, wow, how did your hubby deal with all the hormones?
We have 3 girls and a boy, so of course we outnumber the men in our family, and personally feel sorry for them during the PMS times….
but I think what doesn’t kill them makes them stronger…
p.s. I have family in Melbourne I will make it down there one of those days….now that I think of it, my cousin just had three daughters, one after the other, what is it with you Ausie’s and girls?
My mom always said, that girls are for you….boys…are for somebody else. We should count our blessings.
Yes, count our blessings. Hubby is used to it and doesn’t know any different and is happy. He loves all his girls. Mind you the cats are all male – all 4 of them!
Great point – for those of us who have children. How happy am I if I don’t have children to use as a yardstick?
All the best,
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