WELLBEING → FAMILY REFLECTIONS Issue 787 · November 27, 2019

Flawed Reality

It may be hard to accept the fact that your child isn’t perfect. Do it for her sake

Flawed Reality

Parents love their children. In fact, parents love their kids so much that they’re sometimes blind to their imperfections.

“My son’s teacher says that he doesn’t listen. I think she’s just using the wrong techniques with him. He listens just fine at home.”

While it can certainly be that a child behaves better at home than he does at school and it can be that a teacher lacks the skill, knowledge, or whatever else is necessary to bring out the best in a particular youngster, it’s also possible that a teacher may be seeing a side of a child that the parent can’t see — or doesn’t want to see.

“I teach the Cohen boy four hours a day and I’m telling you that he is — excuse the unprofessional term — a monster. He’s wild and destructive. He’s aggressive, sometimes even violent. And he refuses to listen.

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