Bonni Sollars

I read WC Fields said, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again,
and then give up. There's no sense being a damn fool about it." I think
sometimes we do need to see something through, and even torture is
endurable if we take it one second at a time and know there will be an
end to it. But there do come times when we need to give ourselves some
slack and allow ourselves to lighten our load of the unnecessaries. I
think the best thing to do is to really listen to why the child wants to
quit the class and question how productive it would be to stick with it
and list the pros and cons of quitting or staying with the child. That's
when they really surprise me with how creative and insightful they can
be, when they get all the information and weigh it in their own mind
rather than being told what they should think about it.
Bonni