This
week, like many parents we had to take our kids school, first timers or new
class, or new class mates or new teachers. We then listen to their after-school
stories which are fascinating. As we drop them off and watch them learn their
ways in the new class and scrambling looking for their old friend it tells us
something unique, especially when our “K” daughter looking for her Pre-K
friends and heart broken when some were not there. For our son, he was the
first timer, in the day care; all he looked for just toys and friends, forging
new friends in life. It is so innocent and full of life kind of style. I wish
we, adults, were just like that instead of been so calculative and cautious of
what would, might, should and could have gone wrong.
Back
to school is about time management. It can get tricky. especially when
something significant happens at work, home/family or personal because it can
consume students by throwing him/her out of the newly anticipated routine and
failing to strike the balance between the fine line of self-pacing to meet
school demands and deadlines. For those who are taking online classes, they are
time consuming. Time investment and management requires self-discipline that is
self-driven. I do believe that online classes have more assignments and
students gain more from them than counterpart traditional classes, my opinion.
We
all have struggles balancing work, school, socialization and home/family time.
It is a constant struggle that requires us to strike the balance and attain
discipline. It is important for back-to school students to remember that they
are not alone in this wagon. We all sometimes fall off the wagon and come back
again. It is our nature in life because no one is perfect, so as there is
nothing perfect under the sun.
Go
get educated. It is one thing that has guarantee of paying back under the sun,
so far. Look at the 2008 recession. College educated do have lower unemployment
rate. It won’t surprise you and it should not. You have to start somewhere,
pre-K, K 1-12, then College or University. It is the game of sequence, get it
right. It is also biblical. Proverb 22:
6 says “train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he
will not depart from it”. This is as powerful as it can be that education
is the key to success in both spiritual and physical ways of life. Remember
that education is the key. May God bless you all.
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