Life lessons are inevitably the lessons you will never forget. When life teaches you something there is no way you will ever forget it! You can read about different situations, you can try to prepare yourself, but until you experience it and go through it, you will really not be fully aware what the certain situation means and why you or someone else reacted the way you did.
I often try to share my experiences with my children and prepare them for situations they might encounter in life. By their age even I already experienced situations they will not for life. I try to guide them to learn from my stories or my mistakes. We, social workers, like to learn through case studies and often I would describe “case study” and ask them how would they resolve it and what they would do. But it is not always easy to get their attention and keep it. So I came up with another solution for my 9 year old son to keep it going.
My 9 year old son loves youtube videos. He loves, as many kids do these days, electronics and everything that comes with it. I am not completely against it, and it would be unfair to him if I am, since this is the world they live in these days and have to know about it. But if I can take away from him as much as possible playing video games, I gladly will. So I came up with the idea to have him help me me and make me youtube videos and posters I need for my website and other social media platforms. However, the mission is accomplished of having him remember some of the things we discuss in the process.
We created this video together and we use it now to guide our days , our moods and attitude. We can add many more to these 12 things but we will keep adding. Enjoy our videos and subscribe to our channel. Also, keep the potential of your kids growing and include them in what you do. You would be amazed how creative and smart they are.
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