Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

"I suppose it goes without saying that negative speaking so often flows from negative thinking, including negative thinking about ourselves. We see our own faults, we speak—or at least think—critically of ourselves, and before long that is how we see everyone and everything. No sunshine, no roses, no promise of hope or happiness. Before long we and everybody around us are miserable." I love this talk by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. (click on "I love" to read all of it) It is a good bit of food for thought! It makes me think twice when I open my mouth. "We hold the power for good or ill in our words?" Which will I choose? As for our children, "praise each child individually for what that child is, and help him or her escape our culture's obsession with comparing, competing, and never feeling we are enough."