RE: Living Powerful Lives - Learning Forgiveness or Offense
Wow another deep topic. There are so many important points you touched upon. I completely agree children should be taught to deal with the challenges in life including something as small as what happens in a playground or school. Like you put it, it's about preparing to them to have a powerful life. To answer your question, I personally don't allow others to have power over me or my emotions. Even if someone disappoints or offends me, depending on the situation, I would either confront the person (if I care about them enough. Otherwise they don't deserve my energy!) or in the case of disappointment, I would not allow that to consume me. Things happen, and if someone did that, I treat it like it's their burden to carry, not mine. I am not sure if that makes me sound selfish!
Thats awesome! sounds like you were taught to forgive people no doubt - Learning to not allow peoples junk to mess with me has been really challenging through my upbringing - I learned early on that I wanted people to like people and would be an emotional mess when I perceived rejection...I have been un-learning that the majority of my adult life!