Thoughts from Pop Pop
Pop always like to share his invaluable gems while enjoying a delicious homemade dinner from his lovely wife Nonna and sipping a little vino rosso.
After raising three wonderful children, he shared some insight on how to be a good and thoughtful parent with a simple analogy -
When planting a new tree, you have to straighten it when it is young
You must straighten the tree when it is young and flexible, once it grows to a certain age you cannot straighten a mature oak. And so it is with our children, we have to teach them right from wrong and give them the proper discipline at a young age.
Good parenting involves love, kindness, teaching, and of course discipline. They need to learn at an early age proper behavior, and how to be thoughtful, considerate, young people that will grown into loving, independent, productive members of society.
We need to be there for them and one of the best ways to help them be wonderful young children and wonderful adults is for us to be the wonderful examples that they can watch throughout their formative growing years.
Yes, we can do it. Our children our counting on us.
With Love,
Coach K
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