People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self centered.
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies.
Be successful anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you.
Be honest anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight.
Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous.
Be happy anyway.

If you do good today, people will often forget tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and it will never be enough.
Give the best you have anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God.
It never was between you and them anyway.

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I received this in a handout, I absolutely love it. I’m going to embroider this for each of my kids on a pillow or something. Keeping this motto in mind has helped me with decision making, wether or not to do something for someone. If I do an act of service I do it with God in mind. This way I haven’t lost anything if that friendship doesn’t blossom or something didn’t work out as I thought.

If someone knows the author please let me know, I want to give credit where it is due.

Life Long Learners are curious and engaged. If you agree that creating an environment for life long learning is a worthy goal, consider these 5 steps to achieve the goal.

1. Music is a wonderful way to introduce your kids to tempo and rhythm. Children should listen to all kinds of music and even selections that may be unfamiliar to the rest of the family like cowboy, gospel, opera, etc…

2. Books are very important. Age appropriate reading material is very important to keep at a level the kids can get to it on their own. One point that is often overlooked is to read beyond the child’s own ability. That means you may have to stop more often for vocabulary. Check every so often to be sure they are understanding the story.

3. Dinner time, nuff said, get together at the table.

4. Get outdoors, the best lab is right outside your door. Kids get to use their outside voices (within reason). Let them climb, slide, see all they can see.

5. Art appreciation, have art in your own home, thrift shops are full of gorgeous works for a few dollars. Make your own art, work in different mediums. Showcase the art. While viewing art with a child, talk about the sources of light, the scale, the focus. Visit an art museum, discuss famous artists and their work.

In doing all this, your children will appreciate and imitate beauty and become life long learners.

Teamwork! What’s gonna work? teamwork!

I absolutely love the Wonder Pets. That one line alone is great, I love watching the show with my kids, it is so cute and I love the premise.

When we lived in Japan I really enjoyed watching the considerate way in which team members treated eachother. Young or old people showed eachother respect. I also really like that if someone loses their temper it’s not the person who took the abuse that should be embarassed but instead the one who did the yelling.

I’m trying to teach my kids that, humility and working together as a team. It is so important to know how to get along and work with others. Families are a child’s first team.