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Children are sponges for knowledge and information. They are born a virtual blank slate. They pay attention to everything you say to them. You are the purveyor of all knowledge. Children can’t distinguish between when you are serious and when you say something impulsively, without thinking. A single comment can stay with a child for the rest of his or her life. If you doubt this, I’m sure you can remember a number of statements made to you when you were younger.

Organized Little League baseball was still far in the future when the Crowley Rotary Club decided in the spring of 1923 to set up a four-team league for any boy between the ages of 12 and 16 “whether he be a star or whether or not he feels that he is a good player.”
Several other south Louisiana communities had youth teams that year, but a team made up of Crowley’s best players was too good for most of them.

Your day is hectic. Everything is rushed. You are constantly jumping from one crisis to another. It seems as if there just isn’t enough time for all that has to get done. At the end of each day you feel drained. You don’t feel fully rested in the morning because you are stressing about the day ahead.
Even the weekends don’t offer much relief. Friday night you are exhausted. Saturday is spent running errands. On Sunday you start to anticipate Monday when the cycles start again. Consequently, your stress level starts to escalate before your new week begins.