This weeks reading we talked about love. In the book I'm reading the next four chapters, (8,9,10,11) talk about how we have everything we need to love ourselves. It is important that we take of ourselves before we can even begin to take care of ourselves. Have you ever heard the old saying "you can't change someone without changing yourself?"
As teachers we have that inescapable love for our students. We have to be careful about how much love we give out. Extensions, make-up work, redo tests, those are all ways we show love to our students, along side with the care we show in the classroom. There is a point where there can be to much love and we as students can get taken advantage of.
That being said we have to be careful that we do not give off so much love that we hurt ourselves in the process of not trying to hurt our students. We need to be able to not cross that boundary with still being able to show love and compassion. These few chapters show us the process how we need to just stop and think.
We need to breathe in the moment and "bathe" in our surroundings. Mainly a pure stop and think moment. Think before we speak, act or continue to act.
We need to show the same amount of love that we show are students to ourselves. We need to give ourselves compassion in our short comings and provide resources to ourselves like we do others.
Remember #dontrunonempty
Parent, J. (2018) A walk in the wood: Meditation on
mindfulness with a bear named pooh
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