no matter how many of our children's teachers are…
Page 163 no matter how many of our children's teachers are friends, or eventually therapist, acknowledge their value, our children's real sense of self-worth initially comes from us their parents.
— from Family & Parenting (Family/Parenting) · 10 greatest gifts I give my children by Steven W. Vannoy
In the book
Let me take them in the order that matters most. Love. A child's real sense of self-worth does not come, at first, from teachers or friends or any later success — it comes from you, their parent, in ten thousand ordinary moments. So your first job is to fill the child's bucket with so much love and confidence that all the holes the world will later drill in it can never quite empty it out. — Family & Parenting (Family/Parenting)