One of Those Mom Moments
Oct. 17th, 2005 09:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
qosI'm reading Stephen Covey's The Eighth Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness, and in it he talks about how the best way to learn a subject is to teach it. He then goes on to encourage parents to invite their children to teach them what they're learning in school.
"Great idea!" I thought. "My daughter loves to help people by giving them good advice. She'll be delighted to teach me what she's learned."
So after story time this evening I said to her, "What did you do in school today? Can you teach me something you learned?"
She looked at me like I was nuts, then said emphatically, "Don't feed broccoli to guinea pigs. It gives them stinky gas!"
And yes, this educational moment was result of direct observation today, when she and a friend fed the class pets conspicuous amounts of broccoli.
A zoologist in the making, that's her. . .
"Great idea!" I thought. "My daughter loves to help people by giving them good advice. She'll be delighted to teach me what she's learned."
So after story time this evening I said to her, "What did you do in school today? Can you teach me something you learned?"
She looked at me like I was nuts, then said emphatically, "Don't feed broccoli to guinea pigs. It gives them stinky gas!"
And yes, this educational moment was result of direct observation today, when she and a friend fed the class pets conspicuous amounts of broccoli.
A zoologist in the making, that's her. . .
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Date: 2005-10-18 05:56 am (UTC)It's true though, teaching things has really brought me to a level of mastery that I never had before...and I'll remember about the broccoli.
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Date: 2005-10-19 04:12 am (UTC)I'll keep that in mind about the guinea pigs.