I was perusing and abusing facebook this afternoon when I was prompted by an unfriendly acquaintance’s status to check out her blog. Being the stalker I am (you know you all are) I did, and saw at least a thousand instances of her pretentious nature, except this time, written for everyone to experience… However, out of bad always comes good right? I clicked the view next blog prompt which brought me to “The Life and Times of a Southern Belle”, being a bit of a belle myself, I continued reading and immediately fell in love with the passion and insight with which this woman writes about her children. It is easy to say we love our kids, to kiss them goodbye and hope they do well, both at school that day and in life the next… but what is not easy is to do is to observe them, and really see them, not as mini extensions of oneself, but as miniature foreshadowings of who they will be, and further (more importantly) a full fledged version of who they are right now. She notices the motive behind every action, and understand’s the journey of her children thus far, how exactly it is that they came to be who they are today- she seems to have a beautiful understanding of what the big things in her children’s lives are (she points to her son’s red toy car) and how they may differ from what we as adults see as “the big things” (first steps, first birthday, first date).
As an educator, seeing these kind of relationships between parent and child are so inspiring. It’s incredible to see parents who do not have some type of old-fashioned mold set out for their children to fill, but rather, spend time observing their children’s and hoping that they become successful in life and love and growing into who they are meant to be. As a teacher I have learned that the most difficult and most valuable thing is getting a non-expressive student to express themselves. Once you are able to get a student who is typically uncomfortable or unmotivated to put down their thoughts, especially on paper, you feel like you have given them a gift, more valuable than the ability to tell time, or count to 10, you’ve taught them how to leave a legacy, how to let people know what they think and feel, and how to let people remember them.
So read this blog- PLEASE.
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I just wanted to give props to Tiger Eye, as she seems to really get it, in a way that so many don’t- Congrats on your beautiful writing and your beautiful relationships
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