#17: Starting School Positive and Proud

The Whole Mama - A Podcast with Jenna Gibbons

As we start another school year with uncertainty, anxiousness, and a heavy amount of anxiety, let’s remember our role as mamas (parents) and what we can do for our kids at this moment in time.

Let us offer our child solid ground, familiarity, and support while showing up for them every single day.

Our support should be meaningful and intentional. We should look at them and say:
“No, [their name], I am REALLY proud of you for ________. I am proud of you every single day, and I love you.”

You just assume they know it. You need to tell them - and tell them often.

This is not to make them arrogant or full of themselves. This is to remind them that they are loved, have immense value in this world, and that they are here on purpose.

When I had first started teaching English as a Second Language several years ago, one of my supervisors/mentors shared this with me, and I’ve carried it on when created The Whole Mama and especially when thinking about the whole child.

She said, instead of just teaching skill by skill, start thinking and teaching from the end result and go backwards.

In other words, imagine what you want your students to know at the end of this lesson (or even the end of the year) and refocus that understanding through everything you do with them. Wow.

This is the same with being a parent. We have to think about where we want our kids to be in terms of academics, character, faith, and overall as a whole person.

So, if we want them to have a full cup and feel confident and content in their skills, we need to start filling that cup for them so that even if it gets tipped over a little sometimes by other kids or adults with constructive criticism or even mean comments, they are so solid in their foundation that it doesn’t matter!

Not only that, we also just want to start of this year on as much of a positive note as possible. With all of the chaos and craziness swirling around them at all times, we can offer one, consistent, and powerful thing to them…every damn day.

They need to know that we are proud of them, we keep going and working hard no matter what, and at the end of the day, they should go to bed feeling proud of the work and effort that they put into that day.

Can I get an amen?!?!
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