12/28/2025
Parents. Grandparents. Aunts and Uncles. Siblings. Friends. The best way to ward off the ugliest and most hateful parts of this world is to carefully cultivate individual self worth. This is NOT perfection or pride or developing some sort of complex. This is self esteem, self love, self worth. The more our children (really, this is for all of us) can recognize the good, the value, the worth in them/ourselves, the better able we are to stand up against that demeaning, criticizing, judgy hatred.
So tell someone you love what you love about them. Do it now. I challenge you. 5-1 or 1-5. That means you either pick 5 people in your world and tell them each 1 thing you love about them, or you pick one person and tell them 5. Tell me what you notice....