Happy Friday, everyone. To be in the profession of educating children is also to be in the profession of working with parents. This is not an incidental fact about education. Children come from parents, of course, and children have a near-continuous need for contact with caretakers, which is typically and by default the parents’ responsibility. Parents choose us (or do not choose us) for reasons, reasons that have to do with their aspirations for their children and even their reasons for having children in the first place. Our ability to educate children hinges entirely on our ability to engage continuously with those aspirations and reasons. Parents are partially delegating to us the upbringing of their child—an inherently serious, complicated, fragile decision that demands of us that we fully understand their reasons.
Why have children?
Why have children?
Why have children?
Happy Friday, everyone. To be in the profession of educating children is also to be in the profession of working with parents. This is not an incidental fact about education. Children come from parents, of course, and children have a near-continuous need for contact with caretakers, which is typically and by default the parents’ responsibility. Parents choose us (or do not choose us) for reasons, reasons that have to do with their aspirations for their children and even their reasons for having children in the first place. Our ability to educate children hinges entirely on our ability to engage continuously with those aspirations and reasons. Parents are partially delegating to us the upbringing of their child—an inherently serious, complicated, fragile decision that demands of us that we fully understand their reasons.