#25

You Are Talented:
Maybe you can sing or dance or paint or write; maybe not. But you are talented in ways most people never imagine.
With no particular training, you can calm an uncontrollable child, teach an unteachable one, create disciplinary strategies on the fly and improvise therapeutic activities.
Like a master playwright, you weave scenarios for games of pretend; like an award-winning actor, you teach emotions with facial expressions, motor skills with sweeping gestures, a love for literature with dramatic book readings. you may not be an artist, but you can instantly recognize the subject matter in even the most abstract crayon scribblings or stick-figure action. Your talent may go largely unheralded, but it's hardly unappreciated.
Terri Mauro
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I must keep this and send it to my "team" around teacher appreciation week. This describes them to a tee. I am proud to be a part (leader) of that team. :-)
I've decided we really need to come up with some kind of picture schedule for weekends. It's just too much to ask S to "go and play". Maybe I'll link it to the clock too. Making half hours more readable. I'll have to work on that. Best thing - I'm really caught up at work so this could easily be done by this Saturday.