Mrs. Thompson and Teddy

            Mrs. Thompson is a teacher of elementary school. As a common teacher, she said to all of her student that she loved them all the same. It was a lie. There was a little boy with messy clothes and unpleasant habit sat in the front row named Teddy. Mrs. Thompson just didn’t realize that actually Teddy was a smart student before until his parent died. After reviewing her file, she found a fact that Teddy in the first grade is a good one and have good manner but accidentally he became worst year by year because of his mother’s death. Mrs. Thompson realized the problem and she feel shy of herself. She tried to encourage Teddy and it worked. Month by month, Teddy got well and the end of the year, he became one of the smartest child in the class. Until pass the college, Teddy didn’t forget to Mrs. Thompson and said that she’s the best teacher he ever has. He thanked to Mrs. Thompson for believing him, making him feel important and showing him that he could make a difference. Mrs. Thompson said that Teddy was wrong because the one who taught her that I could make a difference is Teddy actually.

            This story is really touching actually, if I were Mrs. Thompson, I’ll do the same to encourage my pupil to be better. As Mrs. Thompson said that she loved her pupil all the same. We all know that it was a lie but why Mrs. Thompson is still doing that because our pupil will feel that as their teacher, we’ll teach them all the same. It helps so much in learning process. If student feel that they are distinguished, it’ll make learning process don’t work well. In the first time I teach, I’ll so as same as Mrs. Thompson did. Then, I’ll directly do review to my entire pupil. Even though it’ll waste my time but I need to do that to know the growth of each student. It needs to do because I realize that every student has different character and each student has different ability so that it’ll help me to treat, teach and educate them.

            Teddy has a bad situation in that time. The situation changed Teddy’s attitude and manner. It’s teacher responsibility to make Teddy different and get well. If I were Mrs. Thompson, I’ll do the same to encourage him to be better. I’ll get him get his confidence to struggle to live. As a teacher, we should have known our student characteristic so we can help them if they look like have a bad characteristic. Like Teddy, at first he thought that his life is useless and he didn’t have any spirit to live. He did anything without thinking whether it was good or bad. As a teacher, we should change that mindset that life is still a life as long as we are still breathing. Our God have already given a life to us and we must appreciate it with doing good thing in our life so that our life is useful for us and all people around us.

HELEN

            There was a girl called Helen in a motivation video. This video told about a young girl who was washing something when her mom was watching her activity. Her mom felt proud of her child that time. Yap... There’s no mother that not proud of them child if the child do something good. Helen was still washing for a moment and her mother was standing beside the wall. Helen’s mother smiled when she was watching Helen’s activity but her expression change when she realized that Helen was washing a laptop. So, don't you think Helen still do something good, do you? Or should you be proud or angry to Helen if you were her mother?

            The answer is depending on the point of view of each person but based on my opinion, if I were Helen’s mother, I’ll proud of Helen and I won’t angry to her. I think Helen is still doing something good but she needs direction. Why I am not angry to her because she is still learning. If I were angry that time, she’ll feel bad and maybe she’ll not do anything else again because she’s afraid she’ll do mistake. Anger is bad for her psychology.

            I’ll proud of Helen because she’s trying to do something useful and good. When she trying to wash something, it means she have learned before. Perhaps, Helen pays attention to my activity when I was washing plates, spoons or fork. She’s just trying to do as same as what I do. I said before that Helen is still learning. She knows how to use washing tools like sponge, and soap.  She is not only learning how to wash but also how she can reach the sink. I mean she’s a little short and will not reach the kitchen sink, but she can reach that place using a little chair and stand up on it.

            For adult, laptop is sophisticated and very worth. Not only the price but also the data inside make this tool important. If we have a child, we’ll also think that our child is important. When this moment happened, we should think which one is the most important to us; our child or our laptop. Both of them are important but we still have to choose which one the best. If you’re a good mother, you’ll choose your child and if you’re a bad mother you’ll choose your laptop.

Let see…!!! If you decide your child, you’ll not angry to her and you should educate and teach your child which one is right and which one is wrong. You can let your child know softly that what she did earlier is wrong and you teach the right one so that will never happen again. Your child will feel better and the important thing is she knows that what she did is wrong. This is our responsibility as a parent to let our child know which one the right and wrong, not only teach them but also educate them the right thing.

If you choose your laptop, you’ll take your child’s future as a risk. When Helen washes your laptop, it already has broken because the liquid have contaminated the element inside. If you’re angry, what for? The laptop is already broken. Your anger is useless. It just makes Helen afraid to do anything else because she’s fearful to do mistake. It’ll break Helen’s future because she won’t have any confidence to do something anymore.

            In this case, Helen just needs a direction. Next time when I do something and there is a child around me, I should explain my activity to her. So, if Helen follows my activity, she will do as same as what I do and there is no misunderstanding and if she still do a mistake, I’ll let her know which one is the right one.