It is our children. Why don’t we enlist our children’s help more often? Beliefs like children should be seen and not heard. So our limited and limiting understanding of children’s emotions and capabilities is, in a sense, in its infancy.
So many times our kids are the last person we turn to for help, information, or support. This friend wanted some help in creating a retreat for the teens that would bring both sides together to do some conflict resolution and community building.
Several years ago a 13 year old baby-sitter, Melody, who was an only child living with older parents used to hang around our house a lot. One day my wife, Anne, asked her if she could help balance our checkbook. Happy, proud, valuable, responsible. There are large and small opportunities every day to give kids a chance to be valuable, contributing members of society. And not only does the family and community benefit, but the kids benefit tenfold as well. Let’s give kids a chance!Source: positiveparenting.com