8 Tips For Raising an Optimistic, Glass-Half-Full Kid
8 years ago Talia Irvine
I'm a complete optimist. Inherently, I believe that everything will always work out for the best, tough times will always transition to better days, and hard work and intelligent planning will always lead to success. I credit my glass-half-full way of thinking to both a natural personality trait and my even more optimistic mother. Call her a Pollyanna; I'll take her rainbows and sunshine way of thinking any day.
Somehow, however, I ended up marrying and creating two children with a total pessimist, the kind of guy who sees clouds coming in (literally and figuratively) and assumes hailstorms and tornadoes are sure to follow. While we'll probably never have the same reaction to a given situation (you'll often find me trying to convince him that everything's going to be fine while he argues that it most certainly will not be), we do agree on one thing: we both hope our children inherit my all's-good outlook. If you similarly want to raise hopeful little opt..