Last night at an early literacy workshop we were talking about the importance of parents reading and how effective modeling is in encouraging your children to read. And this morning in my Love and Logic class [insert: watching L&L movie while on my treadmill] they emphasized how much kids attitudes are shaped by observing their parents.
Light bulb goes off inside my head.
Now I feel like I'm living in a laboratory and my every move is under scrutiny by my two lab rats. Deep breath. (I don't really think of my kids as rats.) But I am beginning to realize that my outlook on life are the lenses through which my kids view life. My kids will treat others like I do, they will accept problems and deal with them like I do, and they will eat dessert first like me.
It would be so much easier if the song only meant to clap their hands or stomp their feet when we did. Because to "Do As I'm Doing" means that we have to be the kind of people we want our children to be. I'm grateful for the challenge to continually improve.
2 comments:
Where did you get all of the love and logic videos, I only have a book. The thereapists that work with kyler use the same system and so I bought the book in September, but haven't seen any videos. Let me know where you got them....Thanks!
Wow. I love the parallel with the song "Do As I'm Doing". Really good thought for the day! I'm waiting for pictures of your humanitarian cuties. :)
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