If you do not love yourself, how can you love or learn to love someone else?
Pretentious Parents, Parents, Guardians, Grandparents, Uncles, Aunts, Custodian Siblings, Foster Parents, etc.
We must find our true selves. We must change the trajectory of parenting. Until we change our self-truths about parenting, we will not be able to redirect the down-spiraling dilemma we are experiencing in today’s world!
Whether we own up to it or not, we are failing our children!
We must create a sane environment for our children in this insane world.
Several ingredients for love are:
Realization
Respect
Morality
Expectations
Pro-Act————————-Not React
Parents————————- Not competitors
Friends————————-Not Coworkers
One Team———————-Not two forces
One Direction –————– Not Two Paths
ONE GOD, ONE FAITH , ONE FAMILY
By H. Jean Gray
Literature Lights The Way!
A Step-By-Step Manual on Parenting
Very well stated! Loving yourself is step one to being able to express true love to others. Being more intentional about the people and things we allow to be in our lives provides a healthy foundation for love to be built upon. We must learn to see ourselves how God sees us, and who He says we are.
When I think about my childhood and the parenting I received from my parents, I recognize the way in which they loved us – all six of us on their limited income (my mother did not work outside of our home for many years and my dad was a bricklayer which was seasonal work). They were clear about what it meant to be family. There were rules to follow that provided for safety, a sense of security and assurance that the basics would be provided. They allowed for us to be children for as long as we could because, as my mother said, we had many more years to be adults. Their care for us and for one another, their ability to relate to our community (church, schools, jobs) provided the modeling we needed. In our life together they demonstrated their ability to love. They were not perfect people, but they were good enough. Loving is not easy. To love anyone begins with a decision to care for the other.
This a true recipient for love and building family! Awesome Blog