Bella’s bowling lesson
On Mother’s Day, we went to New Farm Park as a family, and had a picnic and a game of cricket.
It was a cracking day!
Now, if you’ve been watching my videos for a while, you’d know how much my kids teach me.
And this particular Sunday was no different!
Here’s what happened…
In the week before Mother’s Day, I had been listening to a Wayne Dyer podcast, and he talked about how he used praise to address his kids behaviours.
If they did something great, give them praise!
If they were learning and practicing a new skill, give them praise!
If they were doing something less than ideal, focus on what they were doing well instead – give them praise for that!
And he spoke about the power of doing that consistently.
So, I decided to apply this new information to our game of cricket on Sunday, and I was pleasantly surprised.
I watched Bella transform before my very eyes!
And it got me thinking…