Great article!
Yes, gentleness is so important.
I taught my sons a lesson years ago - when being greeted by a woman with a bad attitude for the day, I took the time to work with them to show how even bad messages can be shared in a good way - with gentleness. I do not find it easy to be firm (though my husband is teaching me that one, lol) - but gentleness can be a habit that doesn't need breaking.
Thanks for sharing!
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Wow you are so thoughtful in doing that with your sons!!! Would love to learn that from you if you do a post about it. I am learning gentleness too, deliberately because I want to reflect that to my boy as well.
If you are keen, join us at steemmamas discord, @viking-ventures! I'm sure you have wonderful insights to share! :)
I will think about doing a series on virtues... would be a great and positive topic - useful after my fluoride series (which I'm not completely done yet) which is inherently negative - and more than I anticipated when I started it. Maybe that's why I've needed to take a break from it!
As I get into my fiction (also imminent, I hope) you will find that my main characters often display the qualities of virtue, especially gentleness. I think it takes great maturity and sometimes great training to achieve gentleness as a day-to-day characteristic, but I also think it's a worthy goal of us all.