Don't Forget Your Kids
As I read through posts, I sense an energy which flows all over the place. Not really a confused energy but rather a good energy which instead of being collective, this energy feels separated. Not so much in a powerless way but rather in a way which can bring lots of different types of knowledge together. Knowledge is power!
Good blogs and ideas!
Anyway, I thought about kids. Always about the Children. Boring. This phrase has been beaten into the ground.
Don't get me wrong, the principle is valid. But like crying wolf, the message often gets lost.
I want to suggest you take a moment and reflect on your conversations, as of late.
Change. The phrase of the next 4 years. We are definitely in a time of change.
As adults, each of us feel some stress as the current events unfold. This often leads to conversations, sometimes more like statements, as we watch the nightly news and what we often do not consider are the extra ears in the room when we "vent".
As parents, we have an additional requirement we need to fulfill...security!
Our kids hear what is said. They hear what the TV and radio blare out.
The commentators with their different views can be contradictory of one another.
The kids are there with you in the car. They watch the commercial breaks with the 20 second news promos. They know things are different today. Everyone and everything keep saying it.
Plus we have a new President, a Black President. Historically Fact!
I suggest you help your kids regain a focus on their world. Their small world mainly revolves around your household. Make it a safe place. Make it a place where it feels as if the world can fall apart and they would not even know it. Take time and help them to understand that YOU will be there for them! Explain to them, in only the way you can, that YOU Love Them and that they have nothing to fear! Help them to understand that they are a major fact in YOUR world!
Give them some security and help them at least feel their world has hope. You don't have to be super-parent but explaining, to their level, how you are taking care of household issues you maybe currently dealing with, will help them feel more secure. Keep the conversation light and the take them for a treat afterward. This will make you all smile:).
They don't need to carry some of this baggage with them. This is our baggage.
We will figure a way to deal with it, humanity will continue.
Let them grow up as stress free as possible as they will be burdened by plenty of stress when they grow up and find themselves resolving the issues which will confront them, at that time.
One last thought,
You Silent Leaders out there, you know who you are. You lead by example.
You watch and evaluate situations. You posses skills which allow you to quickly evaluate a situation and know whether your skills are required or not. You don't get involved unless you need to.
If you do get involved, you are successful and you get in and get out. You don't look for any medals.
Your neighbors need you now. Especially the elderly and the shut-ins.
Make notice of who these neighbors are and say Hi to them a bit more often.
If you notice a change in their patterns, check in on them, again, just to say Hi.
Keep an eye on your neighborhood and help protect it.
Continue leading by example. Honor of the greater good and respect of the person are in short supply these days!
The worst would be to NOT do this and have a preventable tragedy.
As some states will look to hand out IOU's, as this crisis continues, the elderly may understand this to mean something entirely different and may not believe the needed services they require are still available.
It may be something as simple as a medication which they misunderstand as to be not available because of the IOU's.
We need each other at this time. The government is limited with it's power at our level, always has been, always will be. I would rather count on my neighbors because I know them.
Whatever Change YOU do, Make YOURS a Good Change
Take care!
Good blogs and ideas!
Anyway, I thought about kids. Always about the Children. Boring. This phrase has been beaten into the ground.
Don't get me wrong, the principle is valid. But like crying wolf, the message often gets lost.
I want to suggest you take a moment and reflect on your conversations, as of late.
Change. The phrase of the next 4 years. We are definitely in a time of change.
As adults, each of us feel some stress as the current events unfold. This often leads to conversations, sometimes more like statements, as we watch the nightly news and what we often do not consider are the extra ears in the room when we "vent".
As parents, we have an additional requirement we need to fulfill...security!
Our kids hear what is said. They hear what the TV and radio blare out.
The commentators with their different views can be contradictory of one another.
The kids are there with you in the car. They watch the commercial breaks with the 20 second news promos. They know things are different today. Everyone and everything keep saying it.
Plus we have a new President, a Black President. Historically Fact!
I suggest you help your kids regain a focus on their world. Their small world mainly revolves around your household. Make it a safe place. Make it a place where it feels as if the world can fall apart and they would not even know it. Take time and help them to understand that YOU will be there for them! Explain to them, in only the way you can, that YOU Love Them and that they have nothing to fear! Help them to understand that they are a major fact in YOUR world!
Give them some security and help them at least feel their world has hope. You don't have to be super-parent but explaining, to their level, how you are taking care of household issues you maybe currently dealing with, will help them feel more secure. Keep the conversation light and the take them for a treat afterward. This will make you all smile:).
They don't need to carry some of this baggage with them. This is our baggage.
We will figure a way to deal with it, humanity will continue.
Let them grow up as stress free as possible as they will be burdened by plenty of stress when they grow up and find themselves resolving the issues which will confront them, at that time.
One last thought,
You Silent Leaders out there, you know who you are. You lead by example.
You watch and evaluate situations. You posses skills which allow you to quickly evaluate a situation and know whether your skills are required or not. You don't get involved unless you need to.
If you do get involved, you are successful and you get in and get out. You don't look for any medals.
Your neighbors need you now. Especially the elderly and the shut-ins.
Make notice of who these neighbors are and say Hi to them a bit more often.
If you notice a change in their patterns, check in on them, again, just to say Hi.
Keep an eye on your neighborhood and help protect it.
Continue leading by example. Honor of the greater good and respect of the person are in short supply these days!
The worst would be to NOT do this and have a preventable tragedy.
As some states will look to hand out IOU's, as this crisis continues, the elderly may understand this to mean something entirely different and may not believe the needed services they require are still available.
It may be something as simple as a medication which they misunderstand as to be not available because of the IOU's.
We need each other at this time. The government is limited with it's power at our level, always has been, always will be. I would rather count on my neighbors because I know them.
Whatever Change YOU do, Make YOURS a Good Change
Take care!
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