Encouraging Words

Criticism Disguised as Encouraging Words

In a world that already feels heavy, it’s worth asking a simple question: Why put a child, or anyone for that matter, down when you can lift their spirits with encouraging words?

We see and hear it everywhere: sharp words disguised as honesty, constructive criticism, judgment delivered as care, or, I’m just keeping it real, passed off as humor.

It costs nothing to be a kind example, yet cruelty seems to come easier to some adults who forget that every child they encounter is carrying unseen weight. We should remember that other children become bullies, mimicking what they see adults do.

Build a Child’s Character

Verbal or literal put-downs may offer a brief sense of superiority, but they never build anything lasting, only bad feelings. It doesn’t strengthen a child’s character. It doesn’t heal wounds. And it certainly doesn’t move their world forward. More often than not, it reveals unresolved pain in the adult delivering the blow.

Lifting someone’s spirits, on the other hand, is an act of quiet strength. Encouragement means choosing compassion over cruelty, correcting without humiliating, and listening rather than assuming.

Encouraging Words Change Lives

Encouraging words carry weight that may lift a burden off a struggling child. You may never know how close they were to giving up before you offered a single moment of grace that changed the direction of their day, or even their life.

Whether we realize it or not, we all have influence, and they look up to us, figuratively or literally. Words shape the atmosphere in our homes and schools. When we lift their spirits, we strengthen their resolve.

Strength Springs from Encouraging Words

Before speaking or reacting harshly, pause and ask yourself: Will this tear them down, or will it help them?

Children don’t need harsh, uncaring voices that tear them apart. They need people who care enough to build them up. You never know how much strength your words might give to one whose self-esteem is running low.

When given the opportunity, why put a young one down when you can encourage and lift them? The impact lasts longer than you think. We all remember fondly someone who treated us with respect when we were young.

And some of us have had adults remind us of a moment of care we showed them when they were younger, a moment we had no idea how it would affect them.

So now it’s time to pay it forward, and like a boomerang, it will assuredly come back to us.

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