My dad used to send me emails with all kinds of pictures, jokes, quotes, etc. I came across this gem that he sent me a few years ago:
A young couple moves into a new neighborhood.
The next morning while they are eating breakfast,
the young woman sees her neighbor hanging the wash outside.
“That laundry is not very clean”, she said.
“She doesn’t know how to wash correctly.
Perhaps she needs better laundry soap.”
Her husband looked on, but remained silent.
Every time her neighbor would hang her wash to dry,
the young woman would make the same comments.
About a month later, the woman was surprised to see a
nice clean wash on the line and said to her husband:
“Look, she has learned how to wash correctly.
I wonder who taught her this.”
The husband said, “I got up early this morning and
cleaned our windows.”
~ Author Unknown
And so it is with life. What we see when watching others depends on the clarity of the
window through which we look.
I sometimes wonder how often we see our students through dirty windows. I always made it a practice to never start a new day with yesterday’s experiences hanging over a kid’s head. That was hard sometimes (especially with the frequent flyers), but I often found it was those kids who most needed a clean view.
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