I've been up since 6am getting treats ready for the children of the church. Many of them received good reports from school plus we are in the Halloween Season. I want to award the children for their hard work in the church as well as school. It's easy to look over our children and not show them appreciation; but I feel we as adults need to make the extra efforts to show them they are loved and appreciated. When we appreciate our children, they appreciate themselves and develop good self-esteems. Good self-esteem makes them leaders and not followers. Encouragement for a child is like an drug. The more you give, the more they want. Some need it more than others and we consider these our problem children. I call them the Halloween babies because you will never know what they are going to do; TRICK OR TREAT. They are our little nightmares! These are the ones that need that special encouragement because they are highly sensitive. The wrong words, touch and treatment sends these special babies into another stratosphere. I learned the hard way. I had one of these babies and I did not learn until he was nearly an adult how to treat him. What worked for the others did not work for him. Funny thing is, he's more like me than my two daughters are.
I always wondered how my parents could persuade him to do things I couldn't. They had experience from "ME"; their problem child. Anywayyyy! Appreciate, encourage and love your children because they will be adults before you know it. God Bless
2011. PFP
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