Daily Helping:
Week 13 (March 26 - April 01):
During this 7 day period, consider how we need to have discernment in recognizing the essence of what is involved with the dynamic concept of interceding and intervening for the sake of our students and their families. The most fundamental factors in this concept are righteousness, gratitude and purpose. How do we encourage youth in society to grow up with a deep sense that doing what is right and striving for integrity is more important than anything else, including their own HAPPINESS? The youth in our school communities today are the future parents of students in the next generation of school communities. We have come full circle in that parents need to take the main responsibility, not teachers and administrators or police officers or elected leaders, in raising children to understand the importance of being set apart as members in society who strive to do what is right, i.e., to passionately pursue virtue and character. How do we communicate to students that they need to be thankful for the privilege of earning an education? An excellent place to start is to reinforce that children did not always have video games and McDonald's restaurants throughout the past decades, centuries and millenia; thus, let us direct students with examples of how responsibility precedes happiness and that the world does not center around their every desire. We must proactively foster learning opportunities that allow students to begin the process of discovering their unique purpose in life and strive diligently to overshadow this calling of ours with productive and cordial relationships with their parents and other members in our school communities. If we can bridge the gaps between families and educators, then we can move in the direction of a more perfect Union as American citizens and members of the human race.
During this 7 day period, consider how we need to have discernment in recognizing the essence of what is involved with the dynamic concept of interceding and intervening for the sake of our students and their families. The most fundamental factors in this concept are righteousness, gratitude and purpose. How do we encourage youth in society to grow up with a deep sense that doing what is right and striving for integrity is more important than anything else, including their own HAPPINESS? The youth in our school communities today are the future parents of students in the next generation of school communities. We have come full circle in that parents need to take the main responsibility, not teachers and administrators or police officers or elected leaders, in raising children to understand the importance of being set apart as members in society who strive to do what is right, i.e., to passionately pursue virtue and character. How do we communicate to students that they need to be thankful for the privilege of earning an education? An excellent place to start is to reinforce that children did not always have video games and McDonald's restaurants throughout the past decades, centuries and millenia; thus, let us direct students with examples of how responsibility precedes happiness and that the world does not center around their every desire. We must proactively foster learning opportunities that allow students to begin the process of discovering their unique purpose in life and strive diligently to overshadow this calling of ours with productive and cordial relationships with their parents and other members in our school communities. If we can bridge the gaps between families and educators, then we can move in the direction of a more perfect Union as American citizens and members of the human race.
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