Aspire Magazine: Inspiration for a Woman's Soul.(TM) Feb/Mar 2020 Aspire Magazine FULL Issue | Page 25

easily. If a nervous mother is fearful of her
child’s unhappiness, and seeks to remove
all challenge, all painful experiences from
her child’s life, she will produce a weak-
willed fragile adult.
A human being has a physical body, of
course, but he or she also has a mental,
emotional and a spiritual dimension to
their being. Challenging each of these
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and seeks t unhappiness,
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levels in the right way—
physical
exercise,
mental problem solving,
emotional tests and
even spiritual training, all
build strength.
Were these essentially
simple
prescriptions
to be implemented in
an intelligent and consistent way, then the
barbecue conversation might begin to turn
on how strong, resilient and admirable the
next generation is.
Sarah M
ane
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