It concerns me when I hear girls say, I just need to find the
“right” guy and then I will be happy. We
seem to be teaching our children to place their happiness in someone else’s
hands. What a responsibility to hand
over to someone else. How does someone
else “make” you happy when you have no idea for yourself what makes you happy?
Have you ever been that person trying to make someone else
happy? Were you stressed from jumping
through hoops trying to work out what the other person wanted and needed?
We are bombard with advertising and television shows suggesting
if we have this or do that we will then be happy. We all seem to be in pursuit of
"happiness".
Happiness is a personal thing, so if you teach our child to
think and feel for themselves they will have a better sense of what is right
for them and what makes them happy. It will empower them to realise that they
are responsible for their own happiness and it is not the responsibility of
someone else to "make them happy".
The key is to teach kids to acknowledge their feelings. When we are disconnected from our emotions it
is really hard to find the happiness that resides in all of us, so we tend to
go looking for happiness outside of ourselves.
How do you embrace happiness in your life?
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