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"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." -- Maya Angelou
"The way you parent will affect not only your child, but the lives of hundreds and perhaps thousands of people in your child's future. You don't have a choice about whether or not to affect this net of interdependence; however, you do have a choice about HOW you affect it." — Sura Hart & Victoria Kindle-Hodson
How do your children feel when they interact with you?
Happy, hopeful, capable, appreciated, adored?
When your children remember you in later years, what will they say?
Want a glimpse of the legacy you’re creating today?
Take a moment, right now. Only a moment, I promise.
- Shut your eyes, and imagine your children grown and happy. Thriving.
- Now imagine they’re raising their own children. Your grandchildren. See how they’re flourishing? That’s because your children are such great parents. That’s because of the way you parented your children.
- Let that sink in. Feel the gratitude.
- Cement this vision, this feeling, in your heart.
- Next time things get hard with your child, revisit this feeling. See your children, your grandchildren, and their children, and their children -- all thriving, all smiling at you in gratitude.
Today, imagine your every interaction is being recorded for posterity. It is.
P.S. Most of my blog entries, including this one, are taken from the Aha! Parenting Daily Inspiration newsletter, which serves you in becoming the parent you want to be. To subscribe, please click here.
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I do sometimes fail, but I can also find contentment in the fact that I am working hard and have come considerably far, and I hope that when my daughter is a parent, she will be even more peaceful and have an easier time than I do... ANd maybe with the generations to come we'll end up with parents for whom parenting comes easily and is only joyous, never a chore.