Growing up, my parents always encouraged me. When I would feel frustrated, they would say things like, “I know it’s tough, but you can do it.” Or, “I have faith in you. You can figure it out. If you need help, just let me know.” My parents were always there to help me but they also let me practice my own problem solving skills on my own, and that is something that I really appreciate. When we’re little, we want our parents to make everything better or fix everything right away, but allowing children to think on their own and come up with a solution is a very valuable life skill to have. Allowing me to have that freedom to think on my own, yet still having that security blanket, so to speak, is something that has helped me approach hurdles in my life and not let them impede my goals in any way.
My teachers were the same way. They would teach the lesson and give us our assignments. They were always there for help but they encouraged us to re-read the material as many times as we had to if we had trouble understanding. They wanted us to learn and sometimes we learn by making mistakes (especially in Math).
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I like to encourage younger children with the old standby of, “This too shall pass.” And when they ask me what it means, I explain that things and life change every single day. What we view as a monstrous obstacle today, we can look back at someday and realize that it really wasn’t as big of a problem as it seemed at the time. We need to always keep things in perspective and understand that problems are something we need solutions to; they’re not roadblocks unless we let them be.
Since none of us know what tomorrow is going to bring, I would say to my fellow students, “Life is an adventure; let’s go have one.”
- Positive Affirmations – A positive thinking technique for change. Web. 9 October 2015.
