Comments on: Courage Challenge of the Day

By: Lisa Dungate

Lisa Dungate — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 11:42:00 +0000

Love to hear about your process of self-reflection and read your honest response to our challenge Anonymous! It is often the qualities we most judge in our children that we, too, deny, judge, or otherwise are ashamed to admit in ourselves.Through compassion for ourselves, translating into empathy for our children as they sometimes struggle with the very same things we do, we can offer our children the gift of acceptance.Afterall, empathy is at the root of moral courage.Acceptance, even of those very self-same habits we wish to deny in ourselves, counter-intuitively leads to transformation!Shame, judgment, and denial can keep our thinking, feeling, and being stuck; thus, perpetuating the very things we may most wish to change.Way to focus on what you and your child ARE able to accomplish, instead of holding one another to some punishing standard of perfection!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 06:58:00 +0000

EXCELLENT courage challenge! I am often frustrated with my teenager's lack of organizational skills which are pretty much non existent.Yet, interesting enough, like me, he manages to get himself to school or appointments on time but never ahead of schedule.I somehow remember throughout university I managed to inconspicuously slip in the backdoor and find a seat while the prof simultaneously walked in the front door of the classroom. The challenge is to examine my organizational skills or perhaps lack of… I certainly don't need to look far as I know exactly what I will find…. a large box (very large) containing family photos firmly planted in my bedroom closet patiently waiting to be organized into albums; several drawers filled to the max with papers and stuff desperately needing attention. How many years have I neglected these jobs and others??