Cleanliness isn’t about having squeaky clean kids who don’t play in the dirt and make a mess of themselves and their surroundings.

Everyone has a bit of dirt in their life, and it’s a good thing.

You can’t wrap your child in cotton wool, even though you might want to.

At some stage, they will face the world on their own.

It is up to you to teach them how to deal with whatever comes their way.

Your child benefits if you raise them to respect their environment and all of their possessions by looking after them.

Let them create a mess and learn that if they make one, they clean it up or at least help.

For example, they pick up their toys and put them back in the toybox, return books to the bookshelf, and put dirty clothes in the laundry basket.

Help your child become a squeaky-clean kid by raising your child to be kind to others, think positively, and accept others for who they are.

We need to cleanse the negativity in our world.

Here’s my take on what cleanliness means, or rather includes.

Many ‘keyboard warriors’ could learn acceptance of others.
Keyboard warriors criticise others even though their knowledge of someone else is limited.

People sometimes hide behind their keyboards, criticise others and don’t share their real names or faces.

They will even put other names and faces up so it looks like someone else is saying or doing harmful things about others when they aren’t.

Happy people don’t hurt others. Negative people do.

Unfortunately, many negative people have had difficult, challenging childhoods and, for whatever reason, have chosen to be hurtful to others.

Work on themselves to become better, kinder person who impacts people positively and benefit them better.

Of course, some people like to be cruel because they don’t know better. They are emotionally immature.

So, be thankful if you ‘don’t get’ why others are cruel and hurtful sometimes.

Be grateful that you are not like them because they need people like you in their world; they don’t realise it yet.

The world needs more people like you and the children you are raising to be kind.

Raise your child to be accepting of others and kind to others. Help them become emotionally stable.

Naturally, that doesn’t happen overnight, but as you help them be aware of their character traits, they will get to know themselves more.

Consequently, they will realise they are choosing to be kind, respectful, courteous, and accepting and learn to like and love themselves, which is vital to their self-confidence and love of self.

It is not hard to learn to accept and respect each other, their life choices and beliefs even though they differ from yours.

As long as they are not hurting someone, what harm is there?

Our world will be better if more acceptance, respect, and love for diversity exists.

Just because you strive to practice kindness, caring, compassion, and understanding doesn’t mean you don’t believe in being assertive, truthful (add a little tact) and the value of justice.

I am a believer in karma, and I do believe that cruel keyboard warriors will be ‘outed’ during their lifetime.

After all, technology is constantly advancing.

Years ago, people committed crimes; some probably thought they had gotten away with it.

However, DNA has since helped solve some of those crimes; I suspect they didn’t see that coming.

I suspect the keyboard warriors won’t like it when they are known to the world, either.

As my mum used to say, if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all – it’s not that hard.