05/11/2025
Teach your kids early that their worth isn’t something to be earned — it’s something to be remembered. That they don’t need to twist themselves into shapes to be liked, or silence parts of who they are just to fit in. That the right people will hold them as they are — and the wrong ones will fall away.
Because the world will try to convince them that approval is the prize — that being liked means belonging. But if you have to trade pieces of yourself to keep your place, that isn’t belonging — it’s performance.
The truth is, peace doesn’t come from being accepted by everyone. It comes from liking who you are when you stay true — even when others don’t understand.
So show them how to take that invisible “I want you to like me” sticker off their forehead and place it on the mirror — where it belongs. As a reminder that the person whose approval matters most is the one looking back.
Because when they’re anchored in that kind of self-respect, they won’t mistake acceptance for love, or trade connection for approval. And when they learn to live from that place, their happiness won’t hinge on being liked, and their peace won’t depend on anyone else’s applause…
It will come from knowing they were already enough. ❤️
Quote Credit: Susan Jeffers ❣️
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