In your PUSHING to be BETTER, keep in mind that you still can only do your best. Your best IS your best.

So all that pushing may just get you nothing but some added frustration.

Competition is good…at times, but when it becomes a competition of which race is better than the other…well isn’t that what Hitler was trying to prove?
(Race being the context of this article)

One of the worst things you can do to a human being is to force them to try and be something other than what they are. And when you add to that, the color of their skin, something they had absolutely nothing to do with; being the reason they may not be doing as well as someone of another color; it’s terrible and can have long lasting effects.

I work in a school and some of our black students need much encouragement and reminders that their skin color has nothing to do with how well they are doing in school. Now here comes the “realism”…most of the time they are simply NOT doing their best. Now grant it, in some cases there may be no knowledge of available resources, but it has been proven time after time, if the determination is there, resources CAN be found to help ANYONE do their very best.

The responsibility is on us, as parents or as being part of a “village”, to teach and show our kids that it does not matter the color of your skin, if you do your very best that IS your best! This is not settling, but teaching them to have contentment and confidence in who you are.

I can’t be competent, I HAVE to be BETTER. That IS my very best.

I don’t care what color a person or their children are, to instill in a child to always do their very best is simply good parenting.