tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post8254442939861343204..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Don't Criticise Your Parents Until Your Children Are GrownAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-34437169210688282552012-02-27T20:31:56.723-05:002012-02-27T20:31:56.723-05:00I can well imagine that Dan is worth approaching o...I can well imagine that Dan is worth approaching on this. Apparently he is planning to come back this way, so I'll get a chance. It's a good example of what I wrote about the baseline worth of teaching. One knows that statistically, a lot of kids aren't going to make it. Yet there they are, and some of them are going to make it out, and somebody has to teach them as best they can. It's your job, do it. The honor of such endeavors is immense.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-37946320090199366972012-02-27T09:34:45.402-05:002012-02-27T09:34:45.402-05:00Wish I could bring more to this discussion.
My pa...Wish I could bring more to this discussion.<br /><br />My parents liked reading. For most of my childhood, and far into my years as a teenager, the center of the evening was a half-hour of my parents reading books to the children.<br /><br />All of the children in the family (four boys and a girl) are avid readers. But we have different focuses of reading and learning.<br /><br />Of all my siblings, I am the only one to pursue engineering like my Dad did. However, every boy in the family has done some of his own car-repair work; we all take after our father in that regard.<br /><br />Is that nature or nurture?<br /><br />I think the answer is yes, in part, to both.karrdehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00205160745963596856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-50830050759531706802012-02-27T00:33:32.912-05:002012-02-27T00:33:32.912-05:00Yet it is ironic perhaps that now I am much less c...<i> Yet it is ironic perhaps that now I am much less certain, much less prone to pronouncements, than I was, oh, a decade ago. </i><br /><br />Wait, isn't that why you'd be a better person to comment now than a decade ago? Isn't a healthy dose of trepidation what someone needs to be a truly thoughtful social commentator? <br /><br />Also, you should talk to Daniel, if you can draw him out. Three years of teaching in a rough part of Chicago has given him some very interesting perspectives on what kids need to help compensate for bad upbringings. This year his school focused on making sure the teachers came across as a team, realizing that most of these kids did not have access to a group of adults who modeled consistency. Also, counting to ten before reacting. His words "How many times are they going to use the Krebb cycle in life? But in this neighborhood, knowing how to wait a few seconds before you react can be the difference between freedom and a life behind bars."<br /><br />Seriously, you should talk to him. He's quiet, but he observes quite a bit.bs kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02871717971078952304noreply@blogger.com