managed his campaigns alone. People helped him.
There is power in people. Abraham observed that he was particularly deficient in some ideas, which were in the privy of some other minds. He knew if he must succeed, he had to acquire the help of those minds. He had to bring them around him and fashion how best to work as a team. His success was a result of his confidence in the people he had around him. Having gazed at his success and achievement, he would have been appreciative of his campaign manager, protocol officers and advisers who stringed around him words of encouragement. He trusted their capability to help him and they sure did help him.
As a great dad that he was, he wanted his son to know that his dad would not have achieved the much he had achieved without the help of all those persons. He thus wanted his teacher to make his son understand that though he had succeeded as a politician reaching the foremost position in the leadership hierarchy of the country; his success was the result of all those hands that walked toward his success and all the votes too. He would want his son to know that primarily he had to have faith in his teacher.
Abraham Lincoln had faith in his son’s teacher and he expected his son would have to follow suit and believe everything the teacher would say.
Do you believe in people? Do you not think you are superman not needing any help? Well you would be lying if you say that no one has influenced your life through to where you are now. No one succeeds without anybody. Everyone succeeds with somebody.
Children have to learn that they can be a shoulder for others too as much as they need others to help them succeed. They need to understand the principles of teamwork and togetherness as a virtue towards leadership and achievement. This is where parent play a massive role. As much as parents would desire their wards to be independent, they need to understand that by interacting with other kids their age; they are developing the spirit of togetherness and community.
Parents often lock their wards indoors thinking they are protecting their wards from external influences. While this is great, the child becomes deficient in expressing himself, and develops emptiness, one that only filled by an interaction with their peers.
Children have to grow along with their peers. Elders have to teach them but they have to learn with their mates. They can only learn competition from people who can compete with them. Elders cannot compete with children. It is not feasible and sounds awkward. Play is part of learning. Where else would children learn if not on the backs of their peers?
Children need to learn to trust. Parents have to be trustworthy too. Children have to understand that the principles of trusting others begin with trusting in the home. They have to trust their parents as well as teachers who are also emblems of trust. When there is trust in the home, it translates into trusting people outside.
Children need to realize that life is not about the fear. While they may fear people around them, if they continue to live in doubts, they may never believe people and may lose friendship that could be of productive to them. They have to learn to develop the character of being trust worthy and strive to always say the truth and stand for that truth.
Everyone needs to be trust worthy. Someone has to take you for your words and believe that what you have said will be no different from what another man will say. Teachers carry a burden like Abraham son’s teacher. Those children under your care must believe in you and the other children. No child should come to class and feel lonely. They should have the warm hands of a teacher to throw their problems at and find the loving hands of classmates to encourage them through their fears. In class, there should be no island.
Children find ease trusting teachers as well as people around them. However, they often renege on their trust when they observe attributes that are contrary to what they have known and been thought. The next big thing may be in that small mind but he will need all the machineries of all the people around him to see that dream come through.