Blog #5

For this blog, please find two different places where Carol makes a statement or quotes someone else, and this statement really touches you... really calls to your heart.

In your blog response, for each statement, give the page number where it is found in the book, copy the most important portion of the statement, and briefly tell why it matters to you -- why it has significant meaning for you. (Please do not use the quotes printed right underneath the chapter titles).

1) On page 17 when it talks to about Affirmation I believe that it is true that you need to feel "accepted and acceptable" in order to want learn. I think that it is important to remember this for all manner of learning and working with others. I know that this book is more geared for teaching in the classroom but I think that it is very important to know that being accepted and working with others goes for adult also. Harsh words or said things to others that you work with can make it so that they don't want to work with you or be around you in your adult relationships as well as in teacher/child relationships. The comment "Do I feel worthy here?" is an important question to ask yourself, Have I made the ones around me feel worthy to be here? The old adage, "Do unto others" is really important in all relationships that you come across.

2)On page 18 it states, "It is satisfying to find themselves becoming more powerful." This is so true. I totally agree that a child that finds themselves powerful in what they do will come back to prove that one, they can do it again or two, they can do more and better this time. I loved the statement that Principal Sylvia Allan said, "Some children in the world ask for something and get it, they don't have to work for anything. Isn't that sad? Isn't it sad that children don't have to earn what they want. What a shame!" I feel the same way. If a child strives hard to obtain a goal and then achieves what they are working so hard for. They will be so proud of themselves. They will grow so much in self esteem and self worth that they will jump at the chance to accomplish the next goal in life. Helping a child or your students learn that this, goal accomplishment, is an amazing thing; that finding their worth in life, is a life lesson that can not be taught, but must be earned.