By A.L. Childers
There comes a moment in every parent’s life—perhaps in the quiet hour before dawn, when the house still smells faintly of last night’s dinner, and the floorboards groan like old storytellers—when you wonder:
“What will my children need when I am no longer here to guide them?”
You hear the hum of the refrigerator like a steady heartbeat.
You feel the softness of a blanket across your lap.
A thin ribbon of coffee steam rises like a prayer.
Outside, the world stretches awake, full of noise, opinions, and hurried footsteps.
And you realize…
Children aren’t born into gentle times.
They’re born into human times—brutal, beautiful, unpredictable.
Human history stretches behind us like a long, winding, candlelit road.
For six million years, the ancestors walked.
For 200,000 years, our kind evolved.
Civilization itself is barely a toddler at six thousand years old.
And still—every voice, every story, every mistake repeats itself in the echoing halls of time.
So what do we give our children?
We give them what endures.
Not perfection.
Not certainty.
But wisdom—carried like lantern-light through the dark corridors of this world.
Here are 33 truths I would place in the hands of any child I love.
✨ 1. Never measure your worth against another soul.
You are a different story entirely.
**✨ 2. Character is who you are when no one sees.
Reputation is only the rumor of it.
✨ 3. Think for yourself.
The world is full of borrowed thoughts disguised as wisdom.
✨ 4. Question everything—especially confident people.
Some speak loudly only because they are hollow.
✨ 5. Integrity is worth more than talent.
It holds your life together when nothing else will.
✨ 6. Walk away when love becomes harm.
Value yourself enough to leave.
✨ 7. Your body is the first home you will ever own.
Treat it with tenderness and respect.
✨ 8. You are enough—exactly as you are.
There is no other you in all of creation.
✨ 9. Spend less than you earn.
Debt is a ghost that eats your peace.
✨ 10. Happiness is never found in bottles, beds, or borrowed crowds.
✨ 11. Life is heartbreakingly short.
Spend it doing what lights your soul.
✨ 12. Believe that anything is possible—because it is.
✨ 13. Your dreams are seeds.
If you do not plant them, no one will.
✨ 14. Kindness is free magic.
Use it often.
✨ 15. You will fall.
But strong souls grow from the ground up.
✨ 16. Keep moving forward.
Stagnation is a silent killer.
✨ 17. The world owes you nothing—yet you owe yourself everything.
✨ 18. Life is an adventure.
Say yes to as much of it as you can.
✨ 19. Gratitude turns ordinary mornings into miracles.
✨ 20. Don’t follow crowds.
Crowds lose their way easily.
✨ 21. Guard your joy with locked doors and sharp fences.
✨ 22. Time is a currency more precious than gold.
Spend it with purpose.
✨ 23. Do not go with the flow.
Be the river that carves its own path.
✨ 24. Speak less.
Listen more.
Learn always.
✨ 25. Give kindness freely—
You never know whose storm you are walking into.
✨ 26. Your mind listens to every word you say.
Speak gently to yourself.
✨ 27. When you marry, you marry a family—
not a person alone.
✨ 28. Tell people you love them.
Do not assume they know.
**✨ 29. Not everyone will like you.
You are not required to be someone’s cup of tea.
**✨ 30. Be humble, brave, and kind—
but never small.**
✨ 31. Take no shit.
Respect is a two-way exchange.
✨ 32. Guard your private life.
Not every truth belongs to the world.
✨ 33. Never air your family’s wounds to strangers.
Stories travel faster than fire and burn twice as long.
✨ FINAL COUNSEL
The good you give may be forgotten.
Give it anyway.
The love you pour may be disregarded.
Pour it anyway.
What you build may crumble overnight.
Build with joy anyway.
Because at the end of it all,
It was always between you and God—
never between you and the world.
— Audrey
xoxo
Thank you for walking through these thoughts with me.
If they touched you, share them.
Speak them.
Save them for a rainy day when your child needs what your heart already knows.
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Pull up a chair anytime.
My door—and my kettle—are always warm.
✨ A.L. Childers Author Bio
A.L. Childers is a published author, wellness researcher, journalist, and storyteller whose writing blends ancestral wisdom, modern healing, and lived experience. She is the creator of TheHypothyroidismChick.com, where she shares practical tools, soulful stories, and education for women rebuilding their health and their lives.
Her books include:
- Hashimoto’s Crock-Pot Recipes
- Reset Your Thyroid: 21-Day Meal Plan
- A Women’s Holistic Holy Grail Handbook for Hypothyroidism
- Fresh & Fabulous Hypothyroidism Body Balance
- The Lies We Loved : How Advertising Invented America
- The Hidden Empire
- Nightmare Legends
- The Girl the Darkness Raised: A Memoir of Scarcity, Survival, and Becoming
- The Witch’s Almanac Cookbook (2026)
- Whispers in the Wires
She writes for women who are tired of merely surviving and are ready to reclaim their fire.
✨ Disclaimer
This blog is for educational and informational purposes only and not medical advice. Always consult a healthcare professional for diagnosis and treatment.
