halrunkel
“If your children look up to you, you’ve made a success of life’s biggest job.“(Author unknown)
We all want our children to respect us. The difficulty is this: you can’t MAKE someone feel respect towards you. In fact, the more you try to force that respect, the smaller you become in their eyes. And it’s awfully hard to look up to small people.
So, think of this instead: Who do you look up to and why? I’ll bet they are people who treated you with respect and through their actions and their integrity earned yours in return.
A quiet calm in all of your actions will draw your children towards you and will enable you to access the best parts of yourself. An apology when you blow it, without any excuses, will paradoxically showcase the incredibly attractive combination of humility and confidence.
Who won’t respect that?
Peace begins with a pause,
Hal
