Mr Trees 1st Agreement – Use Kind Words
Mr Tree’s 1st Agreement – Use Kind Words
Words have the power to CREATE or the power to DESTROY.
To understand your own choice of words, you will need to listen to yourself and listen to the words you are using. Listening to our own words identifies how we talk to others. Are you using positive and happy words or you using negative and unhappy words. How we feel dictates how we speak. If you are happy on the inside you will speak with love and happiness. If you are sad and unhappy you will speak negatively. How we feel dictates how we speak.
Words can have a positive impact on someone. If you are always using positive and encouraging words to others, those words build self confidence, self esteem and self worth. These words encourage people to continue on their path and maybe try new things.
Words can have a negative impact on someone as well. If you continually say negative words to someone they will begin to believe those things about themselves. For example, if you tell someone they look funny when they run, eventually they will believe they look funny when they run therefore they won’t want to run anymore. This negative talking will stop them from doing something they may love to do.
Thinking about the choice of words we want to use before speaking them is your first step to being a kind friend.
How you can help
Before speaking STOP, THINK, ASK and then speak. Stop and Think about what you are going to say. Ask yourself is this going to hurt my friend and if no, then speak.
For an example on the 1st Agreement read Mr Tree and the Scary Sleepover. This is a perfect example of how some words that just came out of a mouth without thinking of the words first, can upset a friend very easily.