Always an interesting time of the year for teachers, is it not?? Lights at the end of the tunnel, and all of that stuff.
I remember reading some research indicating that the school office would be sent the most number of ‘troublemakers’ from classrooms in the 2nd last week of any term. And even moreso in the 2nd last week of the year.
Why not the last week, I thought to myself? And yet it probably makes a lot of sense. Somehow, when the end is nigh in that final week, we tend to summon up our last reserves of resilience, and cope with everything as well as possible. As well, kids will remember the last few things that were said and done, and so, we’d obviously prefer those memories to be more positive.
This following narrative has application at any time of the year; and yet I suspect that it applies even more directly to this specific time. Goes like this:
A teacher was once talking with her class, and told them about the two monsters that were always fighting inside their heads.
“So what are the two monsters?” asked one student.
“Well, one of them always looks for the best in your life, and encourages you to think about what is going well in the world around you.”
“And the other?”
“ Ah, well, that’s the monster that always looks for the worst in your life, and hassles you to think about what is going badly in the world around you.”
One student asked: “So which one wins?”
And the teacher responded: ‘The one that you feed.”
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