With a modest tube of toothpaste you can give great lessons to our children or at least try.
That must have been thought by Amy Beth Gardner, a Cleveland mother in the United States who wanted to explain to her daughter what it is and what the power of the word means. He gave him a lesson with a simple tube of toothpaste.
One of those stories that you learn, regardless of age.
Amy's eldest daughter starts high school and her mother wanted to explain that at this stage, words have a lot of power, more than we think.
He handed her a tube of toothpaste and asked him to take it out and leave it on a plate. The girl did it.
Then he asked her to put the toothpaste back in her tube. The girl was perplexed and first protested saying she could not do it, then protested saying that it would not be the same as at the beginning and when she stopped protesting Amy, her mother, explained what she wanted her to understand with it, something much more important than the tube of toothpaste.
"Now that you are going to start high school, you are about to see the weight of your words. You will have the opportunity to use your words to hurt, humiliate, defame and hurt others. You will also have the opportunity to use your words to heal, encourage, inspire and love others "
Because toothpaste had been just a way for her daughter to understand that when words are pronounced and addressed to someone, those words can hurt or help but once said they can never be removed.
"Use your words carefully, Breonna. When others are misusing their words, watch yours. Choose every morning that the words full of life are those that come from the mouth."
"Use your life to give life to a world that desperately needs it. You will never, never regret having chosen kindness."
Amy Gardner told this experience with her daughter through her Facebook wall in mid-August, since then the publication does not stop adding “likes” and comments and does not stop being shared by other people who know the power of words .
Attitude to life
"... unlike other parents who have the luxury of having 18 years to raise their son in values," they will have 9 years less to get it, before their daughter will probably "leave the nest."
Amy and her husband had a hard time being the legal parents of their two daughters, Breona, who is 11 years old, who starts high school this year and Bridgett, 7, both were adopted through the State's reception service.
Not all have been messages of support and not all have been congratulations or comments of support on Facebook for Amy, in fact she has also had different criticisms for her action to which she did not hesitate to respond, openly pointing out that her daughters came from an environment very complicated when she and her husband finally got to adopt them.
"Those who criticize do not know how many nights we have gone to bed feeling completely defeated and how we have worked together to order the chaos that was your childhood before you came into our lives."
It is not easy to educate our children as they grow up, it is not easy although as parents we always put our best intention and all our desire.
