As many of you know I have been a teacher for many years now, and I honestly love my job, but I am not only a teacher, I am also a wife and a mother. I think the easiest one of the three" jobs" above is being a teacher. Husbands can be so much work sometimes and then there are the kids....we don't always know if the things we say and do to them is the right thing.
Parenting can be difficult. Very difficult. Parenting is scary, but parenting is a permanent journey where you often discover more about yourself than what you discover about your own children. It is often a bumpy road and the learning curve is real. It never ever stops. Even if they are grown up they are still your babies and will forever be a part of you, and they always come back even if it is only for money or food, but your child is your child and you will do anything for that child.
Unfortunately there is no rule book to guide us on along the way while our kids grow up, and we have to feel our way through the education of our children but one thing is for sure, even if we are not sure on how to raise a child, parenting is not something that can be quit. In my book if parenthood were a GPS it would mostly say recalculating!
I am blessed with happy intelligent children and I have not had a difficult time with any of my children. Perhaps it is because they know exactly where they stand with me and I have always treated them as individuals. I have given them the opportunity to be themselves and to develop their own personalities without forcing anything on them.
One important thing that I have taught my own kids and I also teach this to my students. I teach them to fail. I honestly believe that if you want to succeed at anything in life, you need to fail first.
Very few people succeed at something the first time they try something new.
I have this one little girl in my class, and when I ask her to do a sum on the board and she gets the answer wrong, she always says: "I'm sorry mam."
I now banned those words in my class. No one is allowed to apologize if they don't get an answer correct, and we often laugh about it because she still apologizes every single time, and then when I say:
"Remember... we don't apologize if you didn't do anything wrong" Then she always answers:
" But I did mam. I did the sum wrong. "
If we teach our children to fail from a young age and that they have to work hard to succeed in life, then we have succeeded in our jobs as teachers and parents.
Was it not Thomas Edison that said:
If you feel like a failure as a teacher or as a parent. Don't. There ARE ways to succeed. You just have to try until you do...
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