To be effective in discipline, parents must keep the child’s emotional love tank filled with love. In fact, disciplining without love is like trying to run a machine without oil. It may appear to be working for a while, but will end in disaster.
The earth is a loving God’s gift to us, and we show our love for His work by practicing good stewardship. – Janet Graham.
The greatest enemy of encouraging our children is anger. The more anger the parent harbors, the more anger the parent will dump on the children. The result will be children who are both antiauthority and anti-parent. This naturally means that a thoughtful parent will do all in his or her power to assuage anger – to keep it to a minimum and to handle it maturely.
Psychologists have concluded that the need to feel loved is a primary human emotional need. For love, we will climb mountains, cross seas, traverse desert sands, and endure untold hardships. Without love, mountains become unclimbable, seas uncrossable, deserts unbearable, and hardship our lot in life.
People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing. WILL ROGERS.
Love is the attitude that says, “I am married to you, and I choose to look out for your interests.
In processing anger toward someone with whom you have a relationship, two questions are paramount: 1. Is my response positive – does it have the potential for dealing with the wrong and healing the relationship? 2. Is my response loving – is it designed for the benefit of the person at whom I am angry?
When a workplace becomes toxic, its poison spreads beyond its walls and into the lives of its workers and their families.
We need the richness of many good counselors all through our lives and an attitude that nurtures them. That way, we may find the clarity and resilience we need when things go awry.
When your spouse’s emotional love tank is full and he feels secure in your love, the whole world looks bright and your spouse will move out to reach his highest potential in life. But when the love tank is empty and he feels used but not loved, the whole world looks dark and he will likely never reach his potential for good in the world.
Unconditional love shows love to a child no matter what. We love regardless of what the child looks like; regardless of her assets, liabilities, or handicaps; regardless of what we expect her to be; and, most difficult of all, regardless of how she acts.
Timely advice is lovely, like golden apples in a silver basket. – Proverbs 25:11.
Steven Covey, author of the bestselling The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, feels so strongly about people’s need for appreciation that he states: “Next to physical survival, the greatest need of a human being is psychological survival, to be understood, to be affirmed, to be validated, to be appreciated.”1.
Strew nuggets of affirmation and caring along your path today; you never know whose day you’ll brighten. – Mary Kay Moody.
Sometimes the decision to agree with the other person’s idea will involve great sacrifice. However, love always involves some sacrifice.
If love is a choice, then they have the capacity to love after the “in-love” obsession has died and they have returned to the real world. That kind of love begins with an attitude – a way of thinking. Love is the attitude that says, “I am married to you, and I choose to look out for your interests.
A true gift is not payment for services rendered; rather, it is an expression of love for the individual and is freely given by the donor.
Bosses use humiliation to dominate.
We cannot erase the past. We can only confess it and agree that it was wrong. We can ask for forgiveness and try to act differently in the future.
No matter what I did, it was never enough.