She was a teacher’s Dream Mom.
Her daughter made the only B she ever made in any class in my seventh-grade English class. Instead of banging her shoe on my desk, her mom told her to work harder. She encouraged her daughter to be the best she could be, and the girl delivered. She was valedictorian, and I was privileged to be her sponsor as a state debater, student council president, and a member of the one-act play cast. She also made A’s in my two high school English classes.
The same mom warned me her boys were not going to be as easy to teach as her daughter, and she was right. Among other things, one of her two sons spilled a two-liter of a soft drink all over my classroom carpet when a substitute was in my class. On the last day of school, Mom brought a carpet shampooer to school and told him to clean the carpet. When he thought he was done, she looked at it and said, “Not good enough, do it again.” And he did.
Today, her daughter is a practicing attorney, and her sons, both successful businessmen. They have made her proud and I have always treasured her support.
There is a lesson to be learned from teaching one’s children to be responsible for their own actions. During COVID, some parents have learned that teaching is not easy. This mom did not need a pandemic.
Let’s not get tired of doing what is good, for at the right time we will reap the harvest if we do not give up
Galatian 6:9