Right…. What you know

I’ve written about a lot on my website. Most of the time what I write is, for a lack of a better word … undereducated. I don’t have a lot of experience in many of the areas that I write about. This doesn’t stop me from voicing my opinion but it does limit my credibility on these diverse topics.

Now the reason I haven’t written in over two months is because I am an expert or at least experienced on two topics; raising children and teaching. Ironically, these are the topics I talk about the least.

I am hesitant to share many teaching anecdotes because of student confidentiality and I really like my job and don’t want to lose it because I said something stupid on my blog. I’m intending to write more about my teaching experiences and lessons but will be very careful about what I say.

Now when it comes to raising children I am becoming somewhat more mature. My fourth child, Luke Churchill, was born on March 29th which explains much of the absence. The other was the end of my school year – more on this later in the next article.

In regards to lessons and stories about my children I’m not worried about legal issues, on this I’m more concerned with the glut of parenting advice and drought of sound advice. Everyone has an opinion and when it comes to children everyone has had some experience ergo the amount of opinions on children are bottomless.

I’m hesitant to write about raising children because so many others have gone before me and their opinion and advice stinks. So what makes me think mine will be any better?

Saya tidak tau (I no know). Of course I think my parenting is good, otherwise I would change it. I’m not going to hold to an obviously bad parenting style just because its mine. But my children are young and I’m not going to use them to support my claim as a good parent. One, its not right to treat children like resume items, second and more practically, as soon as I do they will do something hideous and bite a teacher or something. Oh wait, Nate’s already done that.

So in the coming summer months there will be a lot of entries on parenting and teaching because these are the things in which I have expereince and some measure of success. But will these articles be the perfect compedium to Aesop’s Fables or the book of Proverbs? Only time will tell, because if I told you they would be, I’d already lose what little credibility I have.