As I learn more about NLP, I can't help but notice things in everyday life that make me smile and sometimes shake my head.

Take today for instance, a simple trip to the Doctors. I've recently changed Doctors so it was my first meeting with the doctor, a new practice, a new waiting room and a different demographic. Well it must have been baby and toddler day at the surgery, not that I mind others peoples children, but there were a lot, loads in fact.

Then it was the turn of the older woman and baby to see the Doctor, a seasoned hand I thought, knows a thing or two that one, not like the 13 and 15 year olds with their babies Chantelle and Savanna.

Well I couldn't have been more wrong, the older lady came out with her crying baby, trying her best to calm the poor little thing, then she said it, I couldn't believe what I was hearing, right there in the waiting room, as load and as clear as you like, in a caring way she said "Yes I know, aww my poor baby, I know, they are nasty horrible people."

It's only now that I am begining to realise what damage we do, how, as parents, we set our children up to fall, to install fear in our offspring before they've even had a chance to formulate an opinion.

Stephen