making our own realities
J. Stauffer
I was thinking a lot about this today. How much do we influence our own realities by our expections, the expectations of others on us, etc?
I expect my younger kids to get into things, make messes, be riotously (is that a word?) joyful at times.....and they are.
It is just a given that my kids won't mess with our guns (stored safely with trigger locks by the way) and they simply don't, never have, not even once.
I actively attempt to make it a given that people will be treated with respect.....and sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't.
If you watched Mad Mad House last night, Kelly expected not to fit in (overweight, lives in convent, announced she is a virgin) and she set up the situation to where she didn't.
I don't even know exactly how to phrase what I'm thinking....but I have been thinking <grin>
Julie S.
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I expect my younger kids to get into things, make messes, be riotously (is that a word?) joyful at times.....and they are.
It is just a given that my kids won't mess with our guns (stored safely with trigger locks by the way) and they simply don't, never have, not even once.
I actively attempt to make it a given that people will be treated with respect.....and sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't.
If you watched Mad Mad House last night, Kelly expected not to fit in (overweight, lives in convent, announced she is a virgin) and she set up the situation to where she didn't.
I don't even know exactly how to phrase what I'm thinking....but I have been thinking <grin>
Julie S.
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Elizabeth Roberts
I think we do quite a bit of that...
People keep asking me if I find it difficult with four children, three of them 3 and under...3 in diapers, etc. and all I can say is that I don't.
They ask the same in regards to homeschooling. Isn't it difficult? I'm not patient enough?
Well...if you expect to have problems, then you'll find them. If you expect to do alright no matter what comes up, then you will.
Elizabeth
"J. Stauffer" <jnjstau@...> wrote:
I was thinking a lot about this today. How much do we influence our own realities by our expections, the expectations of others on us, etc?
I expect my younger kids to get into things, make messes, be riotously (is that a word?) joyful at times.....and they are.
It is just a given that my kids won't mess with our guns (stored safely with trigger locks by the way) and they simply don't, never have, not even once.
I actively attempt to make it a given that people will be treated with respect.....and sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't.
If you watched Mad Mad House last night, Kelly expected not to fit in (overweight, lives in convent, announced she is a virgin) and she set up the situation to where she didn't.
I don't even know exactly how to phrase what I'm thinking....but I have been thinking <grin>
Julie S.
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People keep asking me if I find it difficult with four children, three of them 3 and under...3 in diapers, etc. and all I can say is that I don't.
They ask the same in regards to homeschooling. Isn't it difficult? I'm not patient enough?
Well...if you expect to have problems, then you'll find them. If you expect to do alright no matter what comes up, then you will.
Elizabeth
"J. Stauffer" <jnjstau@...> wrote:
I was thinking a lot about this today. How much do we influence our own realities by our expections, the expectations of others on us, etc?
I expect my younger kids to get into things, make messes, be riotously (is that a word?) joyful at times.....and they are.
It is just a given that my kids won't mess with our guns (stored safely with trigger locks by the way) and they simply don't, never have, not even once.
I actively attempt to make it a given that people will be treated with respect.....and sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't.
If you watched Mad Mad House last night, Kelly expected not to fit in (overweight, lives in convent, announced she is a virgin) and she set up the situation to where she didn't.
I don't even know exactly how to phrase what I'm thinking....but I have been thinking <grin>
Julie S.
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B & S Nowicke
I can relate Elizabeth - I have triplets (6) and a 9yo - people always say I
must have the patience of a saint or that I'm nuts - sometimes both. Most
of the triplet moms in my support group say they couldn't IMAGINE
homeschooling their kids - and they only have the 3! Many have gone to the
ends of the earth to have the kids - then they push them off to kindergarten
at 5 so they can have 3 hours and 23 minutes "to themselves" and then have
them repeat Kindergarten the next yr bcz the kids can't keep up or "fit in"
at school! It just kills me. But at least the new moms coming in (with
babies or soon to be babes) here me talk abt the joy, fun and adventures I
have with my kids - and it's starting to make a few of them think a little
differently - hopefully it will last, for the kids sake!
Susan
must have the patience of a saint or that I'm nuts - sometimes both. Most
of the triplet moms in my support group say they couldn't IMAGINE
homeschooling their kids - and they only have the 3! Many have gone to the
ends of the earth to have the kids - then they push them off to kindergarten
at 5 so they can have 3 hours and 23 minutes "to themselves" and then have
them repeat Kindergarten the next yr bcz the kids can't keep up or "fit in"
at school! It just kills me. But at least the new moms coming in (with
babies or soon to be babes) here me talk abt the joy, fun and adventures I
have with my kids - and it's starting to make a few of them think a little
differently - hopefully it will last, for the kids sake!
Susan