Motivational Video:Teachers are Everywhere
They say the definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
I mean you’ve tried time and time again and “it” isn’t working, so why keep trying? Right?
Madness! Maybe.
What about if we shift the context? Think about that definition of madness in the context of raising your kids. Raise your hand if you’ve felt yourself become like a broken record since you had kids. *Waving hand in air*
You repeat the same safety warnings ad nauseum. You guide and plead and advise from a place of experience. You try. It doesn’t always work – they don’t always listen, but you know you have to try!
Madness! Maybe?
What makes you keep trying? Faith. Love. Duty. All of the above?
The bottom line is that you’re willing to drive yourself to the brink of insanity if it means that the lessons you’re trying to teach have the slightest chance of reaching your child. If he/she tunes you out 9 out of 10 times, you’d still keep going. So that those lessons can help them to grow into the strongest, happiest, healthiest human beings they can be.
You believe in your mission. You believe in the long term benefits, even though the going might be rough in the short term. You see the bigger picture.
You look for different ways to get through to your toddler tween teen grown-up-too-soon child. To make yourself a better teacher/communicator. To try to ensure that your child knows that he/she is loved and protected to the best of your ability.
And because you are committed to your cause, you never give up.
In some small way like Derrick, the door-to-door soap salesman. (Please watch the video below.)
Zack Arias – zarias.com
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A 30-ish mother of 3 and unintentional entrepreneur, I started my own IT Consultancy firm after layoffs at my old job. I balance the world of Corporate IT with my life as Manager of the education, health and well-being of my children.
Blogging from the Caribbean, I give tech advice to moms and write about raising 3 kids under 10, one of whom has been diagnosed with Aspergers.