tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-383519761594164656.post3946388483948717309..comments2023-07-03T04:39:27.929-07:00Comments on AZ Reading Lady: The Shack: Limiting YourselfHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17889554974006623288noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-383519761594164656.post-72375791440981347332012-07-30T21:59:14.656-07:002012-07-30T21:59:14.656-07:00Oh, and I totally agree with your team teaching an...Oh, and I totally agree with your team teaching and team parenting! It's always nice to have another personality teaching our kids. In fact, Tasha's 2nd grade teacher was the one that found the "discipline" technique that we duplicated at home to bring some peace.Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17889554974006623288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-383519761594164656.post-893262538386198072012-07-30T21:56:51.608-07:002012-07-30T21:56:51.608-07:00Thank for the comments, Scott. Your approach defi...Thank for the comments, Scott. Your approach definitely has its place in many situations. In fact, many kids totally respect and appreciate that attitude because they don't feel they are being talked down to. <br /><br />The interesting thing is that I don't even know where the content of this post came from (my head must have been off kilter somewhere). The original idea from the book on limiting yourself was more about experiences. Mack was telling Papa about something that he had been through when he realized that he would already know. Papa explained that he limited his knowledge so he could hear the experience as Mack did. This is something I need to try to do more for my kids, Tasha expecially. I tend to cut them off because I know what happened and don't want to listen to it (mostly while reenacting a fight). The thing is, if I listen to what they say, I generally figure out where the problem was. It's just exhausting!Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17889554974006623288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-383519761594164656.post-62512989069751260932012-07-28T20:00:27.837-07:002012-07-28T20:00:27.837-07:00Loved these thoughts. I haven't seen Bill in ...Loved these thoughts. I haven't seen Bill in action as a primary teacher, but I can imagine what you say is true. And he seems to truly love working in the primary, so I have no doubts he is an amazing teacher. <br /><br />What's funny, though, was that I have almost exactly opposite thoughts in the way I personally interact with kids (especially my own kids). I tend to try to interact with my kids, not at my level exactly, but as close to my level as I can get away with. This is not necessarily intentional, it's just who I am. <br /><br />I do think there's some benefit in my approach, but I have to explain myself by changing the topic slightly. I've struggled a lot in my career and still do with the idea that when you talk with people in the computer industry, it's almost like talking in another language. Someone who has absorbed a pretty complex topic will talk in a meeting with the assumption that everyone in the meeting is at least close to their same level of competency. For good reason, it would be tiresome to have to explain every last concept like every one in the room is a beginner. <br /><br />But the field is so vast, and some people (me) in the room will be a beginner in some topic. And when I scan the room and everyone has this appearance of perfect understand (sometimes its true), I think oh no, I'm incompetent and I may be found out. It's an exhausting experience. But if I persist, research the topic, immerse myself in this "more advance language", ask questions without fear, I get to competency - at least enough so that I can have the conversation.<br /><br />So, I guess, my thought with my kids is to immerse them with language and ideas and concepts, and over time they get there more quickly. I'd like to think my kids have done well in reading and language because of this - but maybe I'm biased :-).<br /><br />Again, I'm not intentionally doing this, this is just a natural reaction for me, it's really just who I am. And likely, its not always appropriate. Which is why I think team teaching seems like such a good idea. You can get someone like Bill and someone like me to balance each other out.<br /><br />It's also why team parenting is so powerful, a husband and a wife, so my kids get my wife who is better at engaging their level than I am and me.<br /><br />Anyway, nice post!tempe turleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00906350838729139212noreply@blogger.com