As I listened to the lilt in her voice when she read Mrs. Frisby’s part in Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH and then to the deepening of her speech when it was time to read the lines of the bossy rat Brutus, I smiled to myself because my daughter not only “got it” …
Hope for an Entitled Attitude
I swept the Christmas cookies, candy wrappers, and crumbs from the classroom floor after the party as this fleeting thought swept through my mind, “Of my twenty-seven students, only a few of them said, ‘thank you,’ for the Christmas pencils, erasers, and stamps I gave them.” That thought was quickly replaced with, “Well, I guess …