Car Conversation: Gives You Hope

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Northern Virginia has awful traffic.  In any given week, you might spend a few hours in traffic with your children driving to school, after school activities, and the grocery store.  Instead of jamming to the Top 40s or everyone popping in their headphones, shake things up with a car conversation.  "Car Conversations" suggests topics that you and your children can talk in the car while you're waiting for your red light on 123.


What Gives You Hope?
Today's topic: Who or what gives you hope in life?  How does the way your family (or co-workers, friends, strangers) live give you hope for your life?  Go beyond the superficial level: "Mike Shanahan gives me hope that the Redskins will make the play offs this year."  Instead, steer the conversation to something deeper and something specific.  For example, "At the store yesterday I saw another customer engaging the cashier in conversation and calling them by their real name.  Their treatment of the cashier as a human being  gives me hope and inspires me to do the same." Affirming the goodness in the world is important.


Give it a try.  You'll be surprised with what your children say.


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