I get an email from Andrew Loh of BrainyZine from time to time. I thought of sharing with you his latest letter:
Hi Janet,
All of us know and understand that the world we live is a world full of pessimism and negativity. Most of us are encapsulated or covered by a vicious web of pessimism and negative thoughts that eventually hinder our personal and professional developmental processes, and act as insurmountable obstacles of our life. Unfortunately, as parents we tend to pass on these so called negative traits and characters to our children and their future. All of us want our children to be optimistic and positive in whatever they do or learn. In fact, optimism and expectancy are two of the most critical characters that our children should develop and master. Children who possess and display these two parameters tend to become highly successful in personal and professional life.
Why should parents want their children to be optimistic and expectant of good things, better academic achievements and successful future? Optimism and expectancy are the states of intense anticipation! These are the heavenly feelings that are subjective and that cannot be easily visible! These are the surreal energy that can be enhanced and developed only through personal willpower and repetition. The noble characters of optimism and expectancy are mandatory for reaching goals and objectives.
Children who possess the power of expectancy are better equipped to handle failures, display a very strong sense of personal control and they are better prepared to bounce back again in their life from previous failures. Optimism and expectancy are two of the most important life skills without which we cannot expect our children to be successful in their life. Because, parents are the major partners in developing the thinking styles of their developing children, it is very critical that they do all they can to teach the basic issues of optimism and expectancy to their children.
Available research suggests us that the importance of optimism and expectancy in our children is severely limited by the lack of a developmentally appropriate or correct measure of children’s expectations. Helping your children look on the brighter and sunnier side of life is an important and critical life skill to develop and master. Children can learn optimism and expectancy from their previous experiences or tastes of success, and through their active interactions with parents, teachers and their peers in their classrooms in the first few years of life. All the best!
Thought for today:
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” – Winston Churchill
Best Regards,
Andrew Loh
Andrew Loh
Publisher & Editor, BrainyZine
posted by: janet