September 4, 2009
A friend of mine told me a story that I feel motivated to blog about.
When her uncle was in Jr. high, he disliked school so he began skipping classes and neglecting his studies. As he progressed to high school, he was placed in the lower level classes, and hands on classes like wood and metal shop because of his past poor performance.
One day her uncle asked his mother to please help him get into classes like Advanced Algebra, Biology, or Physics. His dear mom went to the principal and asked for her son to be placed in the requested math and science classes. The principal told them they would try it out, but if he didn’t perform well, they would have to move him back to his former classes.
His mother and the school quickly found out how smart this boy was! When he began to thrive in school, it became obvious that he had been bored and needed a challenge to motivate him. He performed so well in Physics that he was invited to participate in a National Physics contest and placed 7th in the nation. WOW! This boy became a physicist engineer.
If you are the parent of a poor performer, your child just may be waiting for a challenge to motivate them too.
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September 2, 2009
I have lived in Utah for 21 years, and I have never heard of the spiral jetty. It wasn’t a fellow Utahan that told me about it either…… it was my nephew from Idaho. Who would have thought an artist in the 70’s would have built a spiral shaped road in to the Great Salt Lake?! Weird!
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