I find that my teaching helps my parenting skills. For example, when I
read to my kids I'll stop half way through the book from time to time -
and ask my kids to tell me what might happen next - we might draw
pictures...this was not the way I was read to. I think having a broader
perspective on how kids learn helps me to consider more opportunities
that I might not have considered had I not been a teacher.
I believe that there is rich source of material in parenting books that fit
my image of good teaching.
If only all our students were given opportunities to parent/teach in
schools...
Barb Smith
OISE-U. of T.
On Wed, 13 Dec 1995, Cary Anthony Buzzelli wrote:
> As a former preschool teacher, now the parent of two preschoolers, I often
> find myself sounding too much like a teacher when I read to my children.
> I wonder if it was my education as a teacher or my education as a reader.
> Maybe the reason we read to children as we do (or as many do) is because
> that is the way we were taught to read.
>
> In a way it is a nice parallel to the old saying that we tend to
> parent the way we were 'parented' (excuse the wording) unless we
> become very conscious of doing it differently. So, perhaps the
> reading styles of many middle-class ( and maybe others) parents
> mainly reflects way they were taught to read as children.
>
> I write this primarily from my own experience as a teacher and parent.
>
> Cary Buzzelli
> Indiana U.-Bloomington
> cbuzzell who-is-at indiana.edu
>
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