TEACH YOUR CHILDREN WELL YOUR PARENTS HELL WILL SLOWLY GO BY AND FEED THEM ON YOUR DREAMS THE ONES THEY PICK THE ONES YOU'LL KNOW BY DON'T YOU EVER ASK THEM WHY IF THEY TOLD YOU, YOU WOULD CRY SO JUST LOOK AT THEM AND SIGH AND KNOW THEY LOVE YOU SWEETIE HAD A JOB INTERVIEW A FEW DAYS AGO, AND I WAS QUESTIONING HER ABOUT IT...AS I DISCOVERED HOW LITTLE SHE KNEW ABOUT HER CURRENT EMPLOYER'S NUMBERS, IE HEADCOUNT, EXPENSES, CAPITALIZATION, GROSS INCOME, I BEGAN TO COUNCIL HER ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF THE NUMBERS, BUT SHE STOPPED ME TO REMIND ME THAT SHE WAS NOT GOOD WITH NUMBERS AND MATHEMATICS. SHE RECALLLED TO MY MEMORY, THE TIMES WHEN SHE AND HER BROTHER WERE IN GRADE SCHOOL, AND NEEDED HELP WITH ARITHMETIC HOMEWORK...WHAT LITTLE PATIENCE I HAD FOR EXPLAINING AND HELPING MY CHILDREN WITH ARITHMETIC. MRS JUDD WAS INFINITELY MORE PATIENT, BUT LESS SKILLED AT DISCIPLINED, QUANITATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING THAN MYSELF. EVEN THOUGH I GRASPED THE CRITICAL IMPORTANCE OF THIS SKILL, FOR MY CHILDREN'S FUTURE...THERE WAS SOME FLAW WITHIN MY SELF, AND I WAS NOT A GOOD TEACHER IN THIS AREA. MY SON, THE OLDER OF THE TWO, IS DETERMINED TO FOLLOW IN MY FOOTSTEPS AND, I BELIEVE, WILL SOMEDAY SOON ACHIEVE AN ADVANCED DEGREE IN MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE. THE YOUNGER, MY DAUGHTER, INHERITED ALL OF MY LEFT-BRAIN CREATIVE ABILITY, BUT IT IS HER POOR FORTUNE THAT HER FATHER NOT ONLY FAILED IN TEACHING HER PROBLEM SOLVING, BUT PROBABLY CONTRIBUTED TO SOME KIND OF "MATH-FEAR" THANK GOD, HER SOON TO BE HUSBAND COMPENSATES IN THIS AREA, AND I EXPECT WILL ONE DAY BECOME AN ACCOMPLISHED ENGINEER. I LOVE BOTH OF MY KIDS DEARLY, AND ACCEPT THEM FOR WHO THEY ARE. THEY WERE, AND ARE GOD'S GIFT TO THEIR MOTHER AND ME...ONLY NOW AM I BEGINNING TO APPRECIATE THE MAGNITUDE OF THAT GIFT. TO MY CHILDREN, I SAY, FORGIVE ME OF MY MANY FLAWS AS A PARENT. MY OWN PARENTS WERE NOT PERFECT, BUT STRUGGLED AND DID THE BEST THEY COULD, AS I HAVE DONE FOR YOU. I PRAY THAT EACH OF YOU HAVE RECIEVED FROM ME, SOME SMALL PARTICLE OF THAT THING WHICH IS OF ULTIMATE IMPORTANCE...LEARN TO SEE WITH YOUR HEART, THAT YOU WILL KNOW IT WHEN YOU BEHOLD IT


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