The most "portint" things in life.....

If you've never seen the movie The Help and plan on it, then you shouldn't read this post. You've been fairly warned. Asher was really playing well with his trains the other day, so I decided to indulge in some non child related TV. The Help just happened to be on and I was like "What the heck?" So if you've seen it, you know there are several parts in the movie where Millie, the "Help" leans down and tells the young girl she cares for, "You is special, you is smart, you is important" I thought this was really sweet. The third time it showed her doing this, Asher put his train down and said "Baby portint, right Mama?" Shocked. I know he didn't know what it meant. But he knew it was something good. And honestly, I tell him at least 500 times a day how much I love him, but I've never told him he was important. So I blabbered over myself saying "Asher of course you're important!" Anyway, I got to thinking about how important it is to build children up and how easy it would be to give them self esteem just by being conscious of the way we speak to them. So for the past three days since I saw the movie I've been telling Asher "You are special, you are important, you are smart, and I love you" And he loves hearing it! He has been coming up to me and saying "Mama, tell portint" so I'll repeat "You are special, you are important, you are smart, and I love you" Sure Sure, I stole it from a movie, but I'm not ashamed to admit it. It makes him happy. And someday he'll understand what it all means and maybe he'll remember me saying it over and over again and he'll believe it.