How things happens!
I remember some where along the road ,when I considered myself still a student ,someone said to me that his saddest moment is when he has to teach me something.Till this date I could not come out of that evaluation.This dosent mean I attribute all the failures of my life to that person,nevertheless it had a huge impact on me.I had already lost the battle of my career when I could not compete the medical entrance test .After that no matter what I did I proved my self a looser.I could not get over that.
Today I was teaching my elder daughter some math concept and the memory became refreshed. They are so tender sentimentally ,that I do not ever want to have a slip of tongue and ruin the image of herself in her own eyes.
She has been doing addition problems for quite sometime.Today I was teaching her "carry-on-addition".She grasped the concept quickly and did all questions right.But when I gave her mixed problems,some carry-ons and some without,she made few mistakes. I assumed she still needs some practice and she will be fine and I let it go until next day.On the other hand she was very adamant that I evaluate her .Since she worked very hard so I did not want to break her heart.So as an evaluation I made a picture of smily face and said to her "this is what I think about her hard work today".Other days I would write either "excellent" or "good" or "very good".
Looking at that "smily face" her face lit up and she thought very good about herself and promised me that tomorrow she will definitely get a hang of this kind of math problem.I was relieved ,I managed to let her not feel discouraged.
Today I was teaching my elder daughter some math concept and the memory became refreshed. They are so tender sentimentally ,that I do not ever want to have a slip of tongue and ruin the image of herself in her own eyes.
She has been doing addition problems for quite sometime.Today I was teaching her "carry-on-addition".She grasped the concept quickly and did all questions right.But when I gave her mixed problems,some carry-ons and some without,she made few mistakes. I assumed she still needs some practice and she will be fine and I let it go until next day.On the other hand she was very adamant that I evaluate her .Since she worked very hard so I did not want to break her heart.So as an evaluation I made a picture of smily face and said to her "this is what I think about her hard work today".Other days I would write either "excellent" or "good" or "very good".
Looking at that "smily face" her face lit up and she thought very good about herself and promised me that tomorrow she will definitely get a hang of this kind of math problem.I was relieved ,I managed to let her not feel discouraged.
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