When one of my nieces was three years old, she started going to nursery school for part of the day a few times a week. Her mother (my sister) knew that while she was at school she would start to miss Mommy at some point so she taught her daughter to say to herself, “There is no need to cry. Everything will be all right. Mommy will be right back.”
My sister was ahead of her time because she was teaching my niece to say an affirmation to herself even though she didn’t know what an affirmation was or what … Read More
