Last week I learnt about teaching confidence from my driving instructor. He was teaching me of crunching gears, stalling 4-wheelers and sliding-backward-down-a-slope cars.
“Will I clear that cart by the left?” I asked.
“You tell me,” said Mr Duggal, looking straight ahead. He’d never once look at me.
“Look out for the cart,” he didn’t shout like dad would.
The car rolled clear of the cart.
“You know best,” said Mr Duggal with the red eye. “And you know right. Have confidence in y’self,” he said.
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Teaching confidence doesn’t come of cautioning your daughter to death.
It doesn’t come of putting the fear of God into your son.
Teaching confidence comes of letting them do their little things their own way.
It comes of talking about the big things and letting go.
Teaching confidence comes of holding yourself back from pouncing on their every move like a hawk over a mouse – leaving beneath a trembling mouse.
It comes of holding back from rubbing off on them your fears of Can They?
Teaching confidence comes of letting them know that you think They Can.
Poetry in Life 
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