Guy Steven Glanville, a healthy baby boy, born to Robert’s daughter and her husband on Easter morning. We remind us all to bring our children a world which is respectful, responsible and cooperative so that they might grow up knowing the peace and happiness of a secure and loving world.
This may not be for you, but for someone you know.
If you don’t agree or dislike what I share in any reminder, please simply delete.
As with everything in life, what is helpful and good for one, may not be good for you.
Are You Grown Up Yet?
Do you act an adult?
Are you mature in your decisions and behavior?
Do you think, speak and behave responsibly and recognize the results of your choices?
Or have you missed the boat, lost your way or chosen to remain childish and immature?
Some say the median age for a child to leave home for the last time now is 26 yrs. old.
Some say that the age of maturity and adulthood is now between 30-35 years of age.
I remember that 18-21 was the norm for most young people to be on their own as adults.
What has happened to our societal mores that we accept immature behavior in our young adults?
How can we be responsible for what seems blatantly erroneous and harmful to our children?
How can the elders in our society think, speak and demonstrate more respectfully and responsibly?
I can tell the truth.
I can treat myself and others with respect.
I can encourage other parents and people to grow up.
I can watch, pay for, and listen to media (movies, TV, etc) that is helpful, healing and responsible.
I can encourage everyone I encounter, young and old to be respectful and responsible.
I can model the behavior I want to encourage in all my encounters.
I can appreciate those who take responsibility in being mature in their choices and behavior.
What am I referring to? What is being responsible and respectful
All these are immature and ignorant behaviors.
No more drinking to get drunk.
No more swearing.
No more threats and violence used, especially around infants and children.
No more exposure to violence on TV, movies and videos for youth.
No more spending money you don’t have.
No more telling others what to do, when our own lives are not perfectly harmonious and clean.
No more pushing and punishing children to get them to do things your way.
No more teaching fear, avoidance, intolerance and disrespect.
No more insensitive joking, bullying or treating anyone in a disrespectful or unkind way.
No more living life without consideration for others’ time money and achievements.
No using, abusing and confusing children and elders or others.
Adult behavior
Use respectful language in all situations.
Keep your agreements to the letter.
If needed change your agreements with the consent of all parties.
Take time to listen fully to others, before responding.
Drop the need to be right and to get the last word.
Work towards peace and harmony in all relationships.
Tell your truth once and then step back and let go.
See things through the other’s eyes, walk in their shoes, before trying to get them to see your way.
Show up, pay attention, and tell the high and helpful truth. Then let go, detach.
Do not use drugs prescription or otherwise, alcohol, in any way that may be harmful to yourself or others.
Dump your emotional and toxic stuff in private, in a safe place…..not on your loved ones or others.
Get help when you need it from someone who is capable and responsible in helping you.
Only buy what you can pay for, incurring no debt that will cause distress to you or your family.
Treat yourself and your employment with gratitude and dignity. Be grateful for any job.
Take good care of the earth and her resources, also being respectful of others property.
Clean up as you go. Earth stewards leave every place better than they found it. (Including bathrooms)
Leave a good impression on others by how your dress and speak and behave, as a way of respecting them.
Respect others by using your cell phone in private places.
Treat the one you are with as first priority, only answering your phone with their consent.
Recognize that you are teaching everyone everywhere by how you think, speak and act.
Give the world the best of you, and let the rest go with self forgiveness and gratitude.
Loving us all as we clean up our act,
Betty Lue
You Are A Flower in the Garden of Life
If you would grow to be your best self
Be patient, not demanding
Accepting, not condemning
Nurturing, not withholding
Self-marveling, not belittling
Gently guiding, not pushing & punishing
For you are more sensitive than you know
Mankind is tough as war
Yet delicate as flowers
We can endure agonies
But we open fully only to warmth & light
And our need to grow is fragile as a fragrance
Dispersed by storms of will
To return only when those storms are still
So accept, respect,
Attend your sensitivity
A flower
Cannot be opened
With a hammer
Anonymous