One day, Thomas Alva Edison came home and gave his mother a note.
He told her, "My teacher gave me this note and told me to give it only to my mother."
His mother's eyes were filled with tears as she read aloud the letter her son had brought her. "Your son is a genius. This school is too small for him, and we don't have good teachers to teach him. Please teach him yourself."
So his mother dedicated herself to teaching Edison. Many years later, Edison's mother died, and he became one of the greatest inventors of the century.
One day he was looking through some old family things. Suddenly, he saw a folded piece of paper in a drawing frame on the desk. He picked it up and opened it. On the paper was written:
"Your son is mentally ill and we can't allow him to come to school anymore."
Edison cried for hours, then wrote in his diary: "Thomas Alva Edison was a mentally ill child, but because of a heroic mother he became the genius of the century."
How impressive the mother's reaction is, right?
Instead of reading what the letter actually said, and having been able to make his son feel less, he turned it around completely and injected security and certainty into his son!
He made him believe he was a genius and he believed it so much that he grew up and died as one.
It's amazing the power parents have over their children...
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