Hey friends, Jen here, and this is a happy bit. In this happy bit, I want to share five empowering

phrases that I like to share with my kids, and I thought you might like to share with yours as well.

I like them because they run the gamut from teaching your kids to be kind, teaching them how to

set boundaries and make choices, to teaching them to be confident about

themselves. So the first one is a quote from Maya Angelou. And it goes like this. People won't remember

what you said. People won't remember what you did. But people will remember how you made them feel.

This is important because it teaches kids to focus on kindness,

energy, emotions, empathy, compassion. It doesn't matter what you say. It doesn't matter what you do.

It matters how you make people feel. And a lot of times in our logic-driven society,

we forget feelings matter. How are we

going to help others feel? How are we feeling ourselves? This focus on feeling is so helpful.

One more time. People won't remember what you said. People won't remember what you did.

They'll only remember how you made them feel from Maya Angelou.

The second one is another quote. This one from Eleanor Roosevelt. I know you've heard it before,

but I love to quote it. Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. Now, I like to expand

this one and help to teach my kids that no one can make you feel anything without your

consent. Nobody can make you feel angry. Nobody can make you feel frustrated. Nobody can make you feel

sad. So often in life, we'll go through our days thinking that so-and-so made us feel something.

They made me sad. Sally made me mad. My brother made me angry. And I teach my kids

over and over again, and I hope it sinks in one day that nobody can make you feel anything

without your consent. Feelings are a choice. Yes, the initial feeling will come across your brain with a flare of energy,

but we have a choice there. We can keep thinking about it or we can step back and become the

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