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13th Aug 2018

Nine-year-old teaches his mother a clever trick to think positively

Cathy Donohue

Nine-year-old

Mamas, you will love this.

We’ve all heard about the power of positive thinking and that by expecting good results, you can somehow influence them to happen.

While we’re not saying this is completely true, thinking positively can help you feel much better about day-to-day life and how you deal with certain situations can influence your children.

Lauren Cormier got a pleasant surprise recently when instead of passing information on to her son, he had some wisdom all of his own to share.

The mum, who’s behind the Facebook page Oh, Honestly- Real Life for Real Moms shared the below post and explained that her nine-year-old taught her an important lesson.

Her son said that he was starting a new habit:

“It’s something so simple, yet has the potential to profoundly change his life. Every morning he thinks of one or two things he’s looking forward to that day. Little things like having gym class or getting pizza for lunch”.

Driving her children to school one morning, Lauren tried the idea out as a family and found that it was a great way to spread the power of positive thinking.

As Lauren said, it can make all the difference to how you’re feeling and by changing your way of thinking, this can indeed change your life…as crazy as that might seem.

“Our attitudes will make or break our day, week, month, year, LIFE. And although I believe that some people are naturally inclined to a sunnier outlook than others, I also believe that we can train ourselves to focus on the positive instead of the negative”.