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in focus: toddlerAlways Smile Backat Little <strong>Child</strong>renby Sharon Monteiromother, baby & child october 2013<strong>Child</strong>ren, in the rightenvironment are always happy,don’t be the reason to taketheir smile away.Afew days back I was talking to somechildren in a park. One small childasked me why some people don’t smileback when she smiles at them. Being a coach Iimmediately wanted to know how it impactedher and this is what she had to say.When some people don’t smile back ather she feels :• She has done something wrong.• They don’t like her anymore.• They are angry with her.• They don’t love her any more.If you notice the common factor out here thislittle girl has taken the responsibility for anotherperson not smiling back at her and has createdher own story – she begins feeling that theydon’t likeher anymore, theyare angrywith her, theydon’tloveher, shefeelsSHE hasdonesomethingwrong!<strong>Child</strong>ren aresensitiveto70people’s feelings and even though somechildren cannot articulate it they do feel sad,they do feel bad, they do feel that somethingis wrong with them when in fact the adult shesmiled at may have been too preoccupied tonotice the child’s smile or the adult may beangry with someone else or ….there could bea 100 reasons but this little girl does not knowthat and thinks there is something wrong withher.Parents, family members, teachers pleasepay attention when your child/niece/nephew/student or even your neighbor’s child smilesat you. STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING ANDTAKE TIME TO SMILE. There is a lovely quoteby Charlie Chaplin – “I have many problemsin my life but my lips don’t know that, theyalways smile”.So keep smiling. Genuine smiles boost yourimmune system, lower your heart rate , makeyou more attractive, encourages trust fromothers, reduces stress, you get to live longerand most of all research shows that peoplewho smile a lot vibrate high energy and tendto attract more abundance and wealth intotheir lives.Join Sharon’s monthly workshops on ‘NaturalParenting’ and learn easy to use tools andtechniques that help you parent your childfrom the heart. Sharon is an NLP Practitioner,Life Coach, Theta Healer and Teacher. Contacther at sharonrose.monteiro@yahoo.comWorld Smile DayOctober 4
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