{"id":889,"date":"2024-12-13T22:49:50","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T22:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sukiwessling.com\/kidblog\/?p=889"},"modified":"2025-04-09T22:33:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T22:33:17","slug":"why-is-stay-positive-good-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sukiwessling.com\/kidblog\/why-is-stay-positive-good-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is ‘stay positive’ good advice?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maybe your parent or a teacher has said this to you: “You need to have a positive attitude!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And maybe that seemed wrong to you. If it did, here’s some food for thought:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, life can be difficult.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I agree with you that there are lots of things to be negative about. This may be a small comfort, but there have always<\/em> been a lot of things you could be negative about! Imagine being a kid during medieval<\/a> times when the plague<\/a> hit your village. (OK, maybe you shouldn’t imagine that!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But let’s just take this as a given: Human life has always been full of peril.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So why are kids more negative about life than kids used to be? The answer is pretty simple: we know more about the bad things that could happen. That kid in a medieval<\/a> village only knew about the bad things that happened close by. You can know every bad thing that’s happening in the world! You can even know all the predictions<\/em> of bad things that might happen!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That can be exhausting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But life is better when you focus on the positive.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Focusing on the positive doesn’t mean only believing good things. All people need to pay attention to the struggles in this world and try to make it a better place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But focusing on the positive does mean making sure that you find the good things about every day. It means looking forward to good things that you hope will come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everyone who has made positive changes in this world agree:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n