Message of the Day - What a Loving Environment Can Do

Good Morning,

 

Yesterday I returned from a short trip to join loved ones at their wedding. It was a beautiful wedding and afterwards I had a day or so with my Dad. During that time, some friends who I had not seen for nearly 12 years came up to visit me with their son. These friends are originally from my college days in Buffalo in the mid 1980s and had always been people I admired for their kindness and intelligence.

 

Upon their visit, I met their five your old son, an active and intelligent little boy who is quite possibly the smartest and most lucid five year old I had ever met. His father is a science teacher, and his mother is a stay at home editor. During our visit, this delightful boy spoke about power rangers but also how he renamed dinosaurs because the names were hard to pronounce. He grouped all dinosaurs with horns into the hornisaurus category and all flying dinosaurs as flyasauruses. He was happy, and loving on his parents and his parents treated him respectfully, definitely as their son and not friend.

 

I bring this up because their son is adopted, a fact that they do not hide, rather share with pride with their son and how much they love him. The bigger picture is that this boy who lives in a loving and nurturing and intellectual environment is thriving. It had very little to do with genetics, but with love and support.

 

If my friends can create a loving and nurturing environment with such great results, why can’t we. And this loving, nurturing environment does not have to only be for kids, but for everyone. Why can’t we have a loving and nurturing and supportive environment for our friends, our coworkers, and other associates?

 

Isn’t that the type of world and work environment, and family life that you want to live in? If so, then why not help grow it and increase the number of people who want the same thing. As employees we will love our work and coworkers more and be more productive, and in our families, the precious time we have with our kids will be that much more enjoyable.

 

If we all work toward that loving nurturing environment, what kind of world will we be living in?

 

 

 

Enjoy!

 

Sanford Berenberg

Sanford@berenberg.net

http://www.berenberg.net

http://sanfordberenberg.blogspot.com/

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