02/11/2026
At the weekend, my 6-year-old son wrote this ❤️
Nobody told him what to write. In fact, nobody even asked him to write anything.
And I absolutely LOVE that these are the things he wants to be.
We went to Go Ape, and there were a few moments when he was genuinely scared.
And I listened to him talking to himself.
“It’s OK, you can do this.”
“Your brother is 4, you’re 6. If he can do it, you can.”
“Only 5 more steps.”
And do you know what struck me?
At 6 years old, he was doing something most adults struggle with.
He was backing himself.
He was speaking to himself like someone he loved.
He was breaking something scary down into manageable steps.
He wasn’t waiting until he felt confident.
He was teaching himself that he COULD do hard things.
And that’s the thing about confidence.
It doesn’t come from never feeling scared. It comes from showing yourself that you can do things EVEN WHEN YOU ARE.
Imagine how different our lives would be if we spoke to ourselves the way my 6-year-old spoke to himself that day.
Instead of “I can’t”, we said “I’ll try”.
Instead of “What if I fail?”, we said “What if I can?”
Instead of talking ourselves out of things, we talked ourselves THROUGH them.
Because somewhere between being 6 and becoming adults, so many of us learn to become our own biggest critics.
And maybe the lesson isn’t that our children need to become more like us.
Maybe we need to become a little more like them ❤️
Carly ###