June 3, 2024: Expectations
“High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.” – Charles Kettering
Be mindful of your expectations, not only for yourself, but certainly for your children and grandchildren. Expectations are powerful things! My spirit sinks and my heart is saddened when in a grocery or department store I hear a parent deriding a child with comments like "get your stupid self over here." "I'm gonna slap the sh*t out of you!" etc. If that is what is said in public, I can only imagine the degrading things that are said to the child at home. Expectations. Parents please understand that you are the authority figure in your child's life. Your words, your expectations are what will set the level of that child's expectations for him or herself. If you expect nothing of them, they will expect the same. Likewise, think about what your parents expected of you. How were you impacted by those expectations? The same will be true for any other child. Can we all please make an extra effort to encourage any child we come in contact with? It could make a world of difference not only for that child, but also for that child’s community!
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