After a conversation I had with my husband this week...I am taking empowerment into my week. Empowerment to make choices. I realized that I have had most of my choices made for me throughout my whole life. And the ones that I did make myself, were easy no-brainer ones (or ones I should have used my brain for). When we go out anywhere I let my husband make all the choices. When something needs to be done, I ask him what he thinks we should do. I've always lived my life this way and it hasn't always worked out for me. I just didn't know there was another way to live.
Then my eldest brought home her report card this week and it was really pretty good. The parts that she fell a little behind on, I already knew about so it wasn't a shock to me. Except gym class. The teacher noted that she needs to be more aggressive. That bothered me a little because not everyone needs to be aggressive. The world needs passive people too...like me.
So that's where I got hit today. She is like me. If I don't teach her what I know now, she may be one of those girls who looks back and says, "If only I knew then what I know now." So I think I need to have a talk to her today about being more aggressive in gym class. To try just a little harder and not to be so passive. That being just a little bit more aggressive won't change who she is, it will enhance her and allow more people to see who she truly is.
And now as I read that paragraph again I see my fault again. "I think I need to" No. I need to do this because she can't just "think" her way through life, it does help; but she needs to do as well. I do need to talk to her on the way home from school today. And continue until she shares with me how awesome it was to be aggressive (even just a little).
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