One of my biggest pet peeves in life is when I ask someone's opinion about something and they tell me what I want to hear. If I wanted my own opinion I would ask myself. ha! I love honesty.
I have a friend who boils down all my traits, pulls out my imperfections, and then honestly, albeit tactfully, lets me know what they are. The whole experience has been a good learning experience for me as a person. I'm trying harder in life to just appreciate people for who they are and love their quirks. It's a long learning process. Anyway. This friend shed some light on my general conference quirks.
General conference with children has been a really stressful experience for me. I'm always telling the kids to be quiet and trying really hard to hear the speakers and failing. Or succeeding but feeling guilty for reprimanding everyone for being so loud. Sometimes I go to a lot of effort to provide activities for the kids, but they don't really do them. Or they love them so much they want me to help them with everything and I end up getting frustrated that my activity to distract them is distracting me! Next general conference I want to have a project for myself, have fun activities for my kids, and maybe hear some of conference, and maybe not. (Reading them is always better anyway.) I want my kids to LOVE general conference as much as I do and the only way to do that is focus on them, not myself. It's not about me. It's not about me. I swear I have to learn that lesson in 2 billion different ways!
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