Saturday 7 June 2014

12 THings To Tell Our daughters Before 13




1. I love YOU..


When we mean it the words I LOVE YOU have to be the most powerful sentence in the world.

YOU is perhaps the key of it.👧

EVERY SINGLE GIRL should know that her parents cherish her.

The shy girl, the funny girl, the straight A girl and the B- girl, the special needs girl,

the curvy girl, the skinny one, the short one, the tall one.

That girl, the one that belongs to you, to me,  deserves to hear and feel the words,

I love YOU as  YOU are!

2.The size of your pants will never determined the size of your heart.


We live in a time where images are everything. We have the power to alter any picture in a second.

” Making the good look bad and the bad look good. “

More than ever I think we need to teach our girls that the size of our hearts

 will always be far more important that the size of their pants.

More than ever I believe we should use adjectives as strong, smart, wise, powerful, beautiful, kind

instead of skinny, cute, perfect, big, small, to build their character.


3.You were born with your own dignity therefore

no one can take it away from you.

My mom used to tell me this from a very young age.These words of my mom came into my mind.

 I had the right to defend it. My life was affected by the outcome of these simple words greatly.

Every girl deserves to grow with such confidence.

4.Keep your panties on at all times

Reminder which are important to all girls.


5.Don’t do DRUGS.

They will…

D: destroy you.

R: ruin your youth and maybe your life.

U: unhappiness will be around you.

G:grief and S: sorrow will follow them.


6.Remember who you are.


I tell this to myself most of the time, whenever I felt left out ,or sad..

Kids don’t need to know perfectly who they are yet,

they are evolving, reinventing and getting to know themselves everyday.

I believe they just need to remember the value of their souls.

Children can even remind us who we are.

My kids are my heroes. I wish I could love as unconditionally as they love.

I wish I could forgive as they do it.

I wish I could be as willing to learn as they are.

The best way to remember anything is repetition.

We need to tell our daughters often how amazing they are.

We must repeat it time after time.

We need to recognize their talents and spend our lives trying to build them up.

I promise you they will remember who they are if their parents and loved ones tell them often.


7. As your parent I will say no, because I know you can say yes to wonderful things.

That’s right!

Yes to your dreams. Yes to an education.

Yes to experiences that will make your heart full.

Yes to a future. NO is all about YES!


8.I know you may hate our rules, but our rules love you.

Would you ever ask a policemen if you could go 100 miles an hour in a school zone?

Would you ever ask a dentist to do a brain surgery?

Would you ever ask your mother in law to love you as much as she loves her son?

No? Why?

Because we know the rules. Because we understand the consequences.

Because we want to be safe.

Because you know better than to mess with your mother in law.

We need to create for our daughters a set of a few clear fair rules that they will know that we won’t compromise.

In order for this to work we must explain that the reasons why we won’t compromise

has nothing to do with pride or power but with love and safety.

Be CLEAR to the point.


9. Value your opinion.

Sometimes when u feel like u've something to tell, to show ur opinion but you being too scared.. Tell them once in a while of not being too scare just let us (parents) know of their opinion.

 Believe me this is the starting of bonding-trust between mom n daughters. Soon they gona through tough times. Sometimes we could be too scary for the kids 😅


10.Friendship and popularity are not the same thing.


I think this is a serious struggle for those sweet 12 years old girls. They want to be accepted, they want to be liked.

It is our responsibility as parents to know our kids friends. My mum was a wise woman.

My home was always open to my friends, she knew them well, she even took the time to get to know their parents. (Even she doesn't look like care)

She was ahead of the game and everyone loved her.

11.Have fun!


12.Yes, you can!


We should be the biggest fans our daughters would ever have.

We should encourage them to believe they can do anything.

The world will tell them they can’t quite often.

I hope we are the ones to say YOU CAN all the time!

12 + 1 = 13

READ!

One of the most beautiful habits i can pass to my kids is the gift of reading.

There is a good chance that they will read if we read.

One of my personal traditions with my kids is that I would try to buy new books every 1-2months. Story books, alphabet or even puzzles. Sometimes art work@ craft would be better ,they enjoy it.

The books now are more intense than before, but when I don’t read @ do artwork with them, they complain.

I really think they will remember this tradition forever.…..

Lastly,I am not an expert when it comes to parenting. I was just lucky enough to be a 12 year old girl that had a mother that loved her for who she was.

She always there for me every ups & downs..

Thank you mum!

Rest in peace😪

I promise to make u proud someday..


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