Sunday, September 7, 2014

Kindness and Trust

"Trust is the glue of life.  It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication.  It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships."
― Stephen Covey

A junior high student I know ended up the sole student in a class with the guidance counselor because the two other students who were scheduled for the same class were not there.  I asked this student if it was strange as this was the first class with the counselor.  "No," she said, "I felt as though I were talking to someone I had known for a long time."  And she proceeded to share details about the conversation.  The counselor had obviously done a lot of listening and had also shared appropriate anecdotes about her own life.

It really does take a village to raise children and they need caring adults whom they can trust in their lives.  There is no doubt in my mind that this counselor must be a very kind person to have won the trust of a junior high girl.

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