Words of Encouragement

Published Jan 14, 2025, 6:00 AM

Children need to hear words of encouragement. Encouraging your child will help them want to achieve more. Words spoken in anger will discourage them.

All children need to hear words of encouragement.

Doctor Gary Chapman with the Love language minute.

The word encourage means to instill courage. We are seeking to give children the courage to attempt more. We do a great job of this when the child is learning to walk. If the child falls, we say yay! Try again, try again. And the child tries again. Don't forget this principle as the child gets older. The greatest enemy of encouraging our children is anger. The more anger present in the parent, the more anger the parent will dump on the child. The result will be children who are both anti-authority and anti-parent. If you have an anger problem, let me recommend my recent book, Anger Handling a Powerful Emotion in a Healthy Way. It may make the difference between encouraging or discouraging your child.

Doctor Gary Chapman is the author of The Five Love Languages. For more, visit five Love Languages. Com.

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