You are a mentor
Many kids won't listen to their parents because they are their parents. But they may listen to advice from someone they don't know very well instead. Say things to kids that they need to hear. Tell them the things we think are said, but aren't said often enough - and…
Drugs destroy lives
We should talk to kids so much about the ugliness, darkness, and ruin that drugs bring to their users and everyone around to make drugs very scary for them. They are something to be feared. I look around and see the lives shattered by both street drugs and many prescription…
Failure breeds success
- if you don't accept failure. Learn quick, adjust your actions, and go at it again.
How do they make you feel?
You know how some people make you feel uncomfortable and you don't want to be around them anymore? Well, how do you think you make others feel? Do they want more of you, or less? Pay attention. Is it your voice? Your intention? Your mismatching thier body language? How do…
Wake up – and expect things
People who expect progress, opportunity, and action towards their goals will find it coming to them. What do you expect today?
Families are important
If we look around and are honest, we can see that a child needs a mother and a father to grow up healthy and fully actualized. Whatever we can do to plan for and support complete families, and repair incomplete ones, will help individual family members, the community, and the…
Take a chance
Progress involves risk that you will fail, look foolish, or even go backwards. But not risking anything guarantees that you will not progress. Try. Even if it doesn't work out the first time, keep trying. You can do it.
Weight
What happened? Who did what in the past that you're still carrying around everywhere you go? Isn't it time to forgive? Your judgements about whether they deserve to be forgiven are missing the point. Don't YOU deserve to be released? Forgive and let it go. Free yourself. Be…
First came thought, then came deed.
What have you been thinking about? In this of course, you have a choice.
Human Mirrors
A loving person lives in a loving world. An angry person.... Everyone you meet is your mirror. What do you see in others?
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This is your best think daily to date. Social media actually makes it easier to offer positive reinforcement to younger people. Most of the ones I connect with are friends of my children but I encourage them and try to be someone who can show them that they all have value. It seems that they all appreciate an older point of view and some just need a shoulder to lean on from time to time. I am that shoulder and it adds value to my own life. Kids that I coached in baseball 10-15 years ago still keep in touch with me.
My Dad (a family therapist) has a saying, “Experts are found outside the house, even though you may be living with one”
Yes. So necessary. Not only in regard to children, but in regard to some lonely, never attended-to adults.
This one resonates so deeply! So many of our societal problems could be solved by sharing, loving, teaching and empowering our youth. The effort is sooo worth the potential gain.