Students know when a teacher is real. They have a radar for authenticity.
* Admit when you've made a mistake
* Say Thank You
* Don't feel like you have to know it all
* Listen to them/ ask them about their interests
* Use humor/ stories
* Let them know/ see you really care
a nurse shared a story about two patients who almost died on the same night...
one grew up christian
the other was a lifelong muslim
both came back shaken and said they saw someone but when she asked who, their answers were completely different.
one said Jesus was there beside him, calm and familiar. the other said he didn’t see a face but he felt the presence of allah... like an overwhelming sense of peace and light... that’s when she realised that maybe near death experiences don’t show the same figure to everyone... maybe they reflect what a person already believes, trusts and has held onto deeply their whole life.
so i think people don’t just see one truth… they experience it through the lens they’ve always known.
I built my daughter a bed under the basement stairs and she's been sleeping down there for three weeks instead of in her actual bedroom.
She's thirteen. Everything's too loud, too bright, too much. Her room upstairs has windows facing the street and she complains about car headlights, neighbor dogs, the world existing past 9 PM. I thought she was being dramatic until her therapist said some kids just need smaller, quieter spaces to regulate.
Our basement stairs had this useless triangle of dead space underneath. I measured it one Saturday morning while she was still asleep and realized a twin mattress would fit if I built it right. Watched a bunch of carpentry videos, bought lumber online from someone who was tearing down an old deck, and spent two weekends building a frame with drawers underneath and a little shelf for books.
Painted the geometric pattern on the doors because plain gray felt too boring. That yellow door was already there, leads to storage, but it makes the whole thing look intentional somehow.
She slept down there the first night and hasn't moved back upstairs since. Brings her pillow down after dinner, reads with a book light, says it's the only place in the house where her brain gets quiet. My husband thinks it's weird that our teenager prefers sleeping in the basement, but her grades are better and she's not crying as much, so I'm calling it a win.
I found a string of warm white lights online yesterday, the kind you can dim. Going to install them this weekend so she doesn't have to use that harsh overhead bulb. Maybe add some of those stick-on stars on the ceiling part. Make it feel more like hers.
Her friends think it's the coolest thing ever. My sister says I'm enabling her antisocial tendencies. I don't know. I just know my kid sleeps through the night now.
Credit - marta hanger
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