WHAT YOU CAN DO

 Choose upbuilding friends. Associate with people who are respectful, who are truly interested in your welfare, and who will build you up.

"A true friend shows love at all times and is a brother who is born for times of distress." -PROVERBS 17:17. 

Help others. When you are kind and do things for others-including those who cannot return the favor- you will find genuine happiness that comes from giving. That will be true even if you do not seem to receive credit for your good works.

"There is more happiness in giving than there is receiving." - ACTS 20:35.

Help your children cultivate self-respect. One way to do that is to allow them to solve their own problem, to ethe extent that they are able. That children to learn how to cope with adversity and work through it. This lesson build self-respect, and it will serve them well in adulthood.

"Train a child in the way he should go; even when he grows old he will not depart from it." - PROVERBS 22:6, footnote.

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