Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Vulnerability
I was not looking for this exactly but decided to spend the 20 minutes watching. I typed in to the search bar parent engagement in schools and this video was one that came up (I think the word engagement was in the description). Although it is not education based so much of what she talks about has an effect on what we work through as parents, teachers and students in a new masters program. I really like the comment she made about not thinking we need to have perfect children. What we do as parents obviously has a direct impact on how our children do in school. I want my children to know that mistakes are okay and it is okay to not be sure about something but to try and see what happens and learn from mistakes and make better choices in the future if needed. I also connected with her comment of being okay to do something even when we don't know for sure how it is going to turn out. This masters program is new to all of us but if we engage in it and let ourselves be vulnerable I believe great things will come from it.
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I think perfection should be negated out of the equation. I feel it creates stress on the individual. It also makes the individual sometime unwilling to do anything outside of their comfort zone. I posted on a similar concept this week. I want students and my own children to try their best but not let someone else be the one that defines their own parameter.
ReplyDeleteHere is a fortune from a cookie I recently pocketed.
""Past experience: He who never makes mistakes never did anything that's worthy"