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Do it for fun ...

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She said,”Mom, I don’t want to compete again” I said,”Please do it for fun” And she won the second place for International speech contest and table topics contest in the Club. She had to compete in the Area level  She came to me and said,”Mom, may I just do one contest category? And let someone replace me for table topics contest” I said, “Sure” I came home late a day before the contest and she came to me and asked, “Mom please read my speech drafts” I read and said,”I think I love your idea about International women’s day” Without complaining, she wrote her speech ... about Women And once again she said, “I compete not to win the contest but to share the message to respect women because what women can do in this world” I said,”Yes....... just do it for fun” Yesterday ... She won the second place for International speech contest in the area.  Parenting is not to force our children to do something that they don’t like ... but to encourage them to use their talents to explore the

Dealing with difficult person with acceptance

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons. Jessica Lange On that evening my husband suddenly asked me,” Lina, do you have any article about dealing with difficult people?” I just realized I never wrote about that. It was easy to write about good experiences in life. In my life I have lots of experiences dealing with people and most of the times I just wrote about the good one. I curiously asked my husband, “Why do you ask me about that? We have the book somewhere in our book shelf about Dealing with difficult person” He looked at me and smiled, “I think you have one article about it and I want to share to my friend” The only answer came out from my mind was,” If you can not deal with difficult person, deal with yourself first. Just accept and change the way we deal with that person. It is hard and takes time to apply in your life, but it works” It was so simple but also too hard to apply in life. Sharing this story it is not easy for me.