PTS P1M4C5

Module 4 - Parenting And The Power of Acceptance Class 5 - Accepting Our Differences "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." — Reinhold Niebuhr Sometimes it's really hard for us to accept a child who's very different than us. It's much easier to have a rapport and kind of an easy going with somebody who's very similar to who we are, but the gift of having a child that is so different than us is that I really learn to love it. And when you really learn to love a child who's so different than you it really gives you the muscle and the in the capacity to actually love another person who is so different than you. And you can look at somebody and think "oh it's so different than me but I can see the beauty in that difference. I can see the beauty in him being so, let's say, outgoing not like me, and kind of noisy and loud, right?" So I really learned from my kids, the kids that are so different than me can really teach me how to not just accept another person who's different than me but actually kind of like enjoy it, love it, celebrate it. And it's a great gift to really be able to enjoy others in a different way. That I could never do before. "It is not about tolerating differences, or even about accepting differences; in the end, it is about celebrating differences that will heal the world." — Karen Berg