Shake it off, piece of cake

[Guest guest]

I was at my son's baseball game...I was watching a father with his son.

The boy could not hit a baseball if his life depended on it.

When he struck out, his dad patted him on the back and said " Shake it off, piece

of cake. "

I thought about that all day...and then told my husband and anyone who would

listen about what I heard.

COMPASSION. REASSURANCE. UNCONDITIONAL LOVE. A SOFT PLACE TO LAND.

How easy was that to make his kid feel better.

I have never heard comforting words like this from my parents.

How powerful parents' words are.

Amy

[Guest guest]

Awww. It's reassuring that there are good parents out there. Thanks for

sharing

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> I was at my son's baseball game...I was watching a father with his son.

> The boy could not hit a baseball if his life depended on it.

> When he struck out, his dad patted him on the back and said " Shake it off,

> piece of cake. "

>

> I thought about that all day...and then told my husband and anyone who

> would listen about what I heard.

>

> COMPASSION. REASSURANCE. UNCONDITIONAL LOVE. A SOFT PLACE TO LAND.

> How easy was that to make his kid feel better.

>

> I have never heard comforting words like this from my parents.

> How powerful parents' words are.

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> Amy

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[Guest guest]

What a nice thing for the dad to say!

At 04:36 PM 08/04/2011 barrycove@... wrote:

>I was at my son's baseball game...I was watching a father with

>his son.

>The boy could not hit a baseball if his life depended on it.

>When he struck out, his dad patted him on the back and said

> " Shake it off, piece of cake. "

>

>

>I thought about that all day...and then told my husband and

>anyone who would listen about what I heard.

>

>

>COMPASSION. REASSURANCE. UNCONDITIONAL LOVE. A SOFT PLACE TO

>LAND.

>How easy was that to make his kid feel better.

>

>

>I have never heard comforting words like this from my parents.

>How powerful parents' words are.

>

>

>Amy

--

Katrina

[Guest guest]

Truly. Parents have such profound power to influence their children's emotional

health (the younger the child, the more abjectly vulnerable the child is, and

the more power the parent has)... that parenthood should be considered, in a

way, a sacred trust.

In my opinion, anyway.

-Annie

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> I was at my son's baseball game...I was watching a father with his son.

> The boy could not hit a baseball if his life depended on it.

> When he struck out, his dad patted him on the back and said " Shake it off,

piece of cake. "

>

>

> I thought about that all day...and then told my husband and anyone who would

listen about what I heard.

>

>

> COMPASSION. REASSURANCE. UNCONDITIONAL LOVE. A SOFT PLACE TO LAND.

> How easy was that to make his kid feel better.

>

>

> I have never heard comforting words like this from my parents.

> How powerful parents' words are.

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> Amy

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[Guest guest]

Tears.

Wow.

Doug

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> I was at my son's baseball game...I was watching a father with his

son.

> The boy could not hit a baseball if his life depended on it.

> When he struck out, his dad patted him on the back and said " Shake it

off, piece of cake. "

>

>

> I thought about that all day...and then told my husband and anyone who

would listen about what I heard.

>

>

> COMPASSION. REASSURANCE. UNCONDITIONAL LOVE. A SOFT PLACE TO LAND.

> How easy was that to make his kid feel better.

>

>

> I have never heard comforting words like this from my parents.

> How powerful parents' words are.

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> Amy

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