I recently became more aware of modeling to promote children taking on challenge.
Wow! I have messed up on lots of things I was not aware about. A few months back I was on a frequenct complaining kick about the house work. Then I found out children will complain about school if parent complain about work. Now I'm trying to be more ambitous with it to model a good example.
I have done well with is getting out and trying activites. We use to do lots of park classes and library event. I tried to keep busy doing FREE stuff as much as possible. I took my son to try fly fishing at a library class. I had no interest in starting the hobby but we had fun. It was hard but I showed he it's good to try something new. We could do this and it really didn't matter if we were good or not. I complemented our effort.
Recently, I started working on my typing skills at home and I talk to my kids about it. They see the effort.
Don't worry too much on your past mistakes. That's apart of learning. Keep moving forward and give your self a pat on the back for making the effort.
Last edited by onthegomom; 03/04/11 08:00 PM.
