Expectation
Expectation One of the most powerful tools that we can add to our toolbox is to release expectation . There are some positive uses for expectation, such as sending your child off to school expecting them to have a good day. There are some perfectly rational expectations such as expecting water to flow when you flush the toilet. But we frequently use expectation as a weapon which can lead to sabotage of ourselves and others and we don’t know we are doing it. Most of us are familiar with planning a day out, possibly where we go to the park and expect to be able to play on the swings, only to find that the swings are all occupied. We can wait for a turn or we can find something else to play with. At least that is what we would tell our children when we arrived at the park and found no swing available. When a child has an emotional melt down over not being able to find an empty swing, we teach them how to pu...