Planting Seeds

As teachers it is easy for us to think that we are life changers. We are sometimes under the illusion that our words of wisdom are just what is needed to set a child on the right path. It is important to remember that when the time and circumstances are right transformation occurs. Nothing we do makes that shift happen, rather it plants a seed which will ripen when the time is right. Perhaps this will pull some of us off our high horses and help us see that how we act and talk with our children has its place, but we should not be so arrogant as to think that we are alchemists. Rather we are instruments that can be played in a child's life, that hopefully will one day will be part of a wonderful orchestra.