Tuesday 10 September 2013

At the Princess' baby shower almost 9 years ago

my one cousin, whose two kids was almost grown up at the time gave me a wonderful bit of advice. She said that she believes that one of the most important things to teach children these days is self confidence - and by that she meant to tackle the world with no or little fear, with the confidence to proceed and achieve what we set out to do.

It is a difficult balance to keep kids humble but with self confidence. Often I wonder if we achieve this - the humble part is relatively easy - our competitive world sees to this . Often I wonder if we install enough confidence, but sometimes I know we are on the right track to achieve it. Our kids are relatively fearless on rides at the school fete for example.

Mr L on the top of the 3 story slide - they repeatedly did this. All 3.

A surprise us every time at the English schools speech festival on the left and at the Drama Eisteddfods where she competes with great confidence. 
And what really prompted this post - the 3 of them with friend D in a cave on Sunday. They were fearless little explorers - in fact, we had to keep them back from not going in too deep.

I truly love the sense of adventure. I hope we can keep it going in them all.

8 comments:

  1. You are clearly doing a great job Cat

    xxx

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  2. Lovely! Love the last pic!
    I find this so hard too, our girls are naturally shy and it's been very hard to try and build up their confidence!

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  3. You are definitely doing it right!

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  4. I think their confidence is amazing! Definitely a very valueble thing to have, belief in yourself.

    Hahaha, I looked at that slide and tried to imagine Nicola on it. I think I'd have a heart attack right on the spot - she'd probably be fine though. ;-)

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  5. You are doing a wonderful job with the three of them.

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  6. You got this hot Mama....you got this.

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  7. You are doing an awexome job being mom to these gorgeous children. You and Hunter both.

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