Success Builds On Success

You can't run away from your problems When your behaviour Is your problem fear of losing someone you love can have your anger drive them away How many times Must you walk down the road of anger Before you realise your anger Is your problem How many times Must you watch Your child is taking drugs Before you realise Your drug problem taught them, Those drugs were fun that smile when you got drugs Taught your child Those drugs were fun You spend night after night Yelling at your kids and wonder Why don't they listen The man sitting on the couch complaining about kids "They're animals" "Look at them throwing spaghetti" The kid's behaviour Would have been better If he sat at the table and supervised the kids Like any behaviour Kindness is taught If a child kicks his ball onto the roof You can teach hatred by telling him He'll never get it back Or teach him you care by climbing onto the roof and retrieving the ball The way you speak teaches children How to speak I sat in the background listening to the children play Gordon raised his voice "You'll do as I say, It's my way or the highway" Words of his uncle Repeated by the child Psychologists want to blame Either the child or the parents But to me The problem is more complex To me, it's more like percentages Granted, the child makes decisions With courage and confidence They could study and become a doctor But where does courage and confidence come from? Is it nature or nurture that makes a child's personality Courage and confidence builds on success I remember my son trying out for the cricket team Hit the ball for a six All of his peers gasped and said "Look at that" from there on You could not stop him playing cricket his confidence came from me Taking him out to the park Teaching him to catch a ball Teaching him to hit a ball Experience builds skills Those trips to the park taught him the skills to hit that six Watching my father drunk and violent taught me to have fear and self-doubt Half the size of the adults I felt like a failure because I didn't Stand up to stop their arguments When you teach a child to walk across a wooden beam You teach them to build confidence You teach them to have balance You teach them to overcome their fear When you teach a child to respect you by getting the ball off the roof You teach your child to respect adults confidence and respect build success Teachers like children who respect them Success builds on success