Weekend Kindness
Reaching Others Through Kindness

I wrote this series to try to give you some background into what has happened to me in the past, with the acknowledgment that this is something that the Lord is continuing His work on me in the present.

It would be one thing if this happened way back when and did not recur, but the fact that I?ve come into many different circumstances where I the underling was placed into a position where I was in charge, only to train someone to replace me and then feel as if the person replacing me is micromanaging me or I have a feeling of superiority where they shouldn?t be one? this prompted me to write of my experience with a look back (and forward) of some bits of advice that I could offer someone going through a similar circumstance, with the hopes that we?ll get it right the next time it happens.

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Want to build a better relationship with your children, regardless of their age?  Here are 5 things that, if you start them today, you’ll see your relationship improve:

1. Be the kind of person you want your child to become.

If you go back through my childhood memory book, you’ll find a blank at the bottom of every grade that you’re supposed to fill in with what you want to be when you grow up. If you were to look at all of those blanks you would see that they are filled with exactly what I am now– and what my father was growing up.

Your children are impacted by who you are, what you do, and how you treat others. That’s why it’s important to think about who you are through the prism of what they will become. What you do today with them can inspire them or cause them to rebel.

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