#teaching children

[dramoor]

"There is no better way to teach a child Christianity than to live it truly and from the heart. You cannot teach what you do not live."

~St. Silouan the Athonite

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[chaos-ducks]

So I work with kids, but yknow I’m the assistant teacher so I don’t know what’s going on most of the time. Example:

Me, to the teacher: what are we doing today?

Teacher: (ignores me????)

[wellnesswithkuhtrees]

“Change requires motivation. The motivation can come from fear or love. The choice is yours.” - Dr. Becky A. Bailey PhD

[lydiaplain]

[animalsoutloud]

[awesomecooperlove]

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[random-bookquotes]

It’s reassuring, the idea that only bad mothers have bad children. But a mother is never the only person to raise her child. For every good or true thing I try to teach my daughter, the world will tell her something different: that a boy hits you because he likes you, that girls who dress like that are asking for it, that it’s funny to send people death threats on the Internet, that we had to destroy the village in order to save it, that control and power always come from the top down and the outside in, at the end of a fist or a sword or a gun.

Sady Doyle, Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers

[linettiewizowski]

Parents: Stop forcing your kids to apologize for something they CLEARLY have no remorse for.

1. You are forcing your child to apologize. They learn nothing from this. They are only apologizing because you told them to.

They do not care about what they did. Only that they got caught. Sometimes they don't even care they got caught.

2. The amount of disrespect you show as a parent when you do this.

Do you not care that your child clearly doesn't have any remorse for their actions? This might make it seem like YOU don't care what they did either and only want to quickly shut up the person your child affronted.

3. Your child might now think that almost anything they get up to, can just be excused with a "sorry." They will probably do it again. Or just be sneaky about it.

4. You teach them that it is perfectly fine to fake remorse. You don't encourage them to feel real empathy/sympathy whatsoever with trying to force artificial feelings from them.

5. This. Turns your child. Into an asshole.

Please stop turning your children into little assholes, thanks.

Side note: This is a personal aggreivance. (Get this smarmy, unapologetic little shit out of my face. Lmao. They clearly don't care.)