Thursday, September 25, 2008
I'm finally appreciated!
This is the moment I have waited for! I am finally appreciated! Last night Sean sent me a paper that he had written for a class, asking for input (the paper was due today). I edited the paper, primarily moving some paragraphs around, cutting some material out and adding transition statements, but not changing too much of the wording. Sean thought my version looked great. "So great, in fact, that it doesn't look like my work." One of his teachers said that he looks forward to seeing improvement over the year and if Sean took what I'd done, then "expectations regarding organization skills will be higher than my actual abilities." He decided to turn in his original paper. What he did ask me to do was to explain my revisions as that would benefit him more. Well, I spent over an hour doing that and sent him my comments. After a long day, I finally sat down to read email and haven't felt such gratitude from one of my children in a long time: (Sean's email) "Thank you very much. I'm rather more amazed than anything. Then again, I forget that it's You, the organization guru. And this is precisely what I need to learn. It's my guess that, having been under your wing, I never bothered or needed to organize myself. However, using your suggestions, and this environment, that can be readily changed."
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