"A genuine teacher does not seek to impress you with their greatness, but instead to impress you that you posses the skills to discover your own!" - Charles F. Glassman
My dear girl, the day you see I’m getting old, I ask you to please be patient, but most of all, try to understand what I’m going through. If when we talk, I repeat the same thing a thousand times, don’t interrupt to say: “You said the same thing a minute ago”… Just listen, please. Try to remember the times when you were little and I would read the same story night after night until you would fall asleep.
When I don’t want to take a bath, don’t be mad and don’t embarrass me. Remember when I had to run after you making excuses and trying to get you to take a shower when you were just a girl?
When you see how ignorant I am when it comes to new technology, give me the time to learn and don’t look at me that way … remember, honey, I patiently taught you how to do many things like eating appropriately, getting dressed, combing your hair and dealing with life’s issues every day… the day you see I’m getting old, I ask you to please be patient, but most of all, try to understand what I’m going through.
If I occasionally lose track of what we’re talking about, give me the time to remember, and if I can’t, don’t be nervous, impatient or arrogant. Just know in your heart that the most important thing for me is to be with you.
And when my old, tired legs don’t let me move as quickly as before, give me your hand the same way that I offered mine to you when you first walked. When those days come, don’t feel sad… just be with me, and understand me while I get to the end of my life with love. I’ll cherish and thank you for the gift of time and joy we shared. With a big smile and the huge love I’ve always had for you, I just want to say, I love you … my darling daughter!
Writing is empowering, and not just because it’s fun to tap into that creative vein and be amazed by the riches there. Writing, in all its varied forms and purposes, is a complex process. It calls upon us to bring our left and right brain together to shape experience and feeling into something another person can read and understand. That need, to feel understood, to know that what one thinks or feels matters, is universal. Many people, children in particular, view the whole process as mysterious and inaccessible. The good news is: anyone can learn to write and every writer has their own unique process. But there are many more ways in which writing empowers us. The writing process is rarely linear but does have distinct phases that all writers go through: planning, reflection, drafting, and revision—though not necessarily in that order! Writing can help children and adults alike to:·
enhance their problem solving and critical thinking.
develop integration of process, content, and skills.
develop organizational strategies depending on the form of the writing.
develop the skill of inquiry ( which includes:collecting and evaluating information, comparing and contrasting, imagining situations from another perspective, building argument for a particular position or point of view, learning the importance of not only asking questions of others but of ourselves, of not only revising the information we receive but being willing to revise the questions).
increase decision making abilities.
develop a healthy skepticism which leads to exploration of ideas, an enlarged world view and a confident imagination.
Having read a variety of essays on the meaning and the purpose of writing, I have devised this short piece of text, hoping it will help my students (adults equally) develop into independent creative thinkers,individuals and “Men of Letters”, , .
Here is an example of a decently done essay by Vladan Mihajlović,II4, 'Bora Stankvić'. Grammar School Raising the drinking age in order to reduce the death toll among teenagers
There is a proposal to shift the drinking age limit up in Serbia in order to reduce the death toll among teenagers. The reason for this is because the amount of alcohol-related deaths has been rising since 2010. Shifting the drinking age up and imposing stricter laws will undoubtedly reduce the death toll among teenagers , due to the fact that the majority of teen deaths occur as a consequence of an accident. The majority of these accidents are car accidents caused by teenage drivers who drive under the influence of alcohol. It is assumed that those changes will definitely begin to reduce the amount of young lives lost each year. On the other hand the age-shift and stricter laws will have little or no effect in a country like Serbia, where the tradition is that boys in order to become men should start drinking at an early age. Exposure to alcohol at a very early age can increase the chances of long term alcohol abuse in the future. Also, there is a problem that teenagers will rely upon their parents, older siblings and friends who are expected to purchase beverages for them.
My conclusion is therefore that drinking age limit shift, in the country, like Serbia, will have little or no effect, so we should consider other ideas in the future in order to stop the future escalation of this problem.
I believe that the only info I missed to post on my website is the date of my birth ;-)............April, 25th,1970. and the fact that I love chocolate and sweets. <3