From the article: Work-at-Home Moms and Volunteering
When you volunteer at your child's school, you spend some time inside your child's world. You observe not just your child but the teacher, their classmates and school policies. You get the opportunity to fill in the long blank that often follows the question: "What did you do in school today?"
Sometimes when I volunteer at school, a light bulb will suddenly go off in my head and I will understand a story my child told me or why they prefer to do something a certain way.
What is the most interesting thing you've learned by volunteering at your child's school? What Did You Learn?
Sometimes when I volunteer at school, a light bulb will suddenly go off in my head and I will understand a story my child told me or why they prefer to do something a certain way.
What is the most interesting thing you've learned by volunteering at your child's school? What Did You Learn?
Saintly Teachers
- The most important thing I learned from spending time at my kids' school is that their teachers are saints.
- —hometime
Having High Expectations for Kids
- I never understood why my daughter and the the kids in her class seemed to genuinely like their teacher. The teacher always seemed unnecessarily gruff to me and gave a ton of homework. One day as I was approaching the classroom just before I became visible at the doorway, I heard the teacher talking. And it was in that stern voice she uses, so I thought they were in trouble. But in fact she was telling them how well they had done in a particular project, that they'd really displayed teamwork and maturity. She didn't gush and in the end she said, "But I wasn't surprised, I knew you could do it."
- —Guest Jillian
