Life’s Little Alphabet – ‘E’ is for Effort

[image error]When our children were growing up, we always told them, “We don’t expect you to be the best, but we do expect you to try your best.” Now, why would we tell them we didn’t expect them to be the best? Didn’t we want them to excel and succeed? Of course we did. But we knew that if we told them we expected them to be THE BEST, that was putting a lot of pressure on young shoulders. They might have gotten discouraged before they even started, and not put their entire effort into it, thinking there...