Did you know that you are a wonderful teacher? That's right. Every time you react to another person, you are teaching him or her how to behave around you.
A friend of ours was complaining about how her husband would mess up the clothes drawer looking for an item, and how she would have to keep cleaning it up after him.
What she did not realize is that by cleaning it up, she was making it acceptable for him to keep making the mess. Her complaints about "Why can't he learn?" were futile, because he was learning; he was learning what she was teaching him. And she was doing a phenomenally good job of teaching him.
You can't always make a grouchy person happy, and you can rarely make an 80-year old go sky diving. But you can teach most people how to act around you most of the time.
You are a great teacher, but are you teaching what you want to teach?
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