Weekend Kindness
Reaching Others Through Kindness

Humility is a hard lesson for those of this generation to teach.  We’re too busy telling them that they are the best that ever was, and pumping more money into personal trainers,gym memberships, and the latest gear.

The truth is that many modern parents really believe what they think about their child is real– they really are the cutest, the smartest, and the best at everything they do.  That’s why they attribute failure to bad luck.

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This past year we had a missionary to the Ukraine over to our house after the Sunday service, and as we got to talking about the differences between here and there, he told me that one of the big differences is crime.  He told me how that he lets his children take the subway to and from school and other locations– by themselves.

Lenore Skenazy did the same in New York City.

In letting her son find his way home (a 45 minute adventure) with $20, a map, and the general direction, this author gave her son self confidence– the ability to feel grown-up.  She also gave herself (unknowingly, we’re lead to believe) a lot of press coverage.

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It’s no secret that men and women are different, and that they do not always understand each other.  At the same time, the love that is shown between the sexes is more powerful than that shown within the sex, and the same is true when it comes to the father daughter relationship.

In Meg Meeker’s book, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters, our author about how a daughter’s first love is her father.

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