tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7746728517094789543.post3301220048122803425..comments2023-10-26T05:09:59.582-05:00Comments on Princess in Boyland: Keep Up the Good WorkTeblehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06092137213243946487noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7746728517094789543.post-23890596400865203342010-03-20T18:04:11.945-05:002010-03-20T18:04:11.945-05:00I had a little slacker last year that cried every ...I had a little slacker last year that cried every time I pushed him to try harder on a tech project. Wrote a comment about his change in attitude on his first report card this year and suddenly he has become a shining star in my class. Works every time. I write a positive comment on every single one of the report cards I must mark for my 583 technology students. (Thanks goodness Kdg and firstys do not get a tech report card or there would be over 700 to record!) I have found it to be worth every second it takes to find something positive. Kids glow. Parents smile and try a little harder to be the parent you expect them to be. Its not an easy job and your students may not remember everything you taught them but they WILL remember how you made them feel about themselves. After 30 years in the classroom and having made Facebook connections with a host of my former Kindy students, I can personally attest to that.Lynhttp://www.ryterrytes.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7746728517094789543.post-58398627390889277092010-03-19T15:31:47.743-05:002010-03-19T15:31:47.743-05:00I think that's a very interesting viewpoint on...I think that's a very interesting viewpoint on it. I have a kid who it does come fairly easy for, and I am there (her dad isn't, but the Co-Sinner seems to not mind being an actual father figure in her life) for her every single night to help with homework, talk about what's going on, etc. But still for her, it's no big deal. She does it becuase her best friend does it and because she likes hearing her name called at the assemblies.<br /><br />My younger daughter? It does *not come easy for her. Not because she's not smart, because she is, but because her head has about 18 different topics going at full speed at all time. She's emotional, she's interested in horses, not spelling lists, she's thinking about which kid on the playground said which other kid is ugly, etc., etc., etc. It is so stinking hard to keep her reined in and focused, and when she *does do well, she's happy, but in a vague, "huh, I'll be damned" sort of way. <br /><br />Good grief.Robin in Montanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10975353606677130638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7746728517094789543.post-15169046058658790912010-03-19T05:45:29.631-05:002010-03-19T05:45:29.631-05:00Well Done you for not putting it on the report car...Well Done you for not putting it on the report cards or sending them as letters home to parents. I would have been sorely tempted too.<br /><br />As well you know being a parent is not easy, there are never enough hours in the day and sometimes the last thing you want to do is use your brain but you show up for your kids no matter what. <br /><br />My biggest fear is not that my son wont get an A and its not that he wont be a superbrain its that he wont have the confidence to try, that he wont have the confidence to give it 100% because he assumes he can't do it. <br /><br />Last week was the first full week he has managed at school since Christmas due to glandular fever and yesterday he got awarded a certificate for progress in literacy. He even did a little victory dance up on stage because he has the confidence to try and THAT is what a parent instills in their child when they show up.<br /><br />If there were more teachers, parents and human beings that encouraged as apposed to just existed just imagine what the next generation could achieve!Square Peghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11291983136741276925noreply@blogger.com