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Tell us about a time when you should have helped someone… but didn’t.

Source: Sorry, I’m Busy | The Daily Post

This past weekend I felt like a lazy lout when my wife went Saturday with one of our daughters to shop all day for her siblings and then the other daughter on Sunday. My wife is great, she knew I was doing some extra detailed research for my lesson plans so she didn’t even ask. I want you to know I don’t take her for granted though. I should have been there shopping along with her and each daughter. My son was out of the equation because he was  working.

I made it up to everyone though. I went out in the morning and got my wife and I Starbucks. Then for lunch while she was out with one daughter, I got the remaining kids Subway. For dinner, I even went and got Chipolte. So don’t write me off as totally selfish. I do think next year I want to take more of a role in getting gifts for the kids.

 

Tell us about a time when you should have helped someone… but didn’t.

Source: Sorry, I’m Busy | The Daily Post

This past weekend I felt like a lazy lout when my wife went Saturday with one of our daughters to shop all day for her siblings and then the other daughter on Sunday. My wife is great, she knew I was doing some extra detailed research for my lesson plans so she didn’t even ask. I want you to know I don’t take her for granted though. I should have been there shopping along with her and each daughter. My son was out of the equation because he was  working.

I made it up to everyone though. I went out in the morning and got my wife and I Starbucks. Then for lunch while she was out with one daughter, I got the remaining kids Subway. For dinner, I even went and got Chipolte. So don’t write me off as totally selfish. I do think next year I want to take more of a role in getting gifts for the kids.

 

Walking down the street, you encounter a folded piece of paper on the sidewalk. You pick it up and read it and immediately, your life has changed. Describe this experience.

Source: Everything Changes | The Daily Post

The paper I found this morning that changed my life said:

Dear Traveler through life and time,

1. There is nothing to fear but fear itself.
2. Most people are just as scared as you are, don’t be intimidated.
3. Love all people.
4. Focus on your passions and do them as much as possible.
5. Don’t ever feel ashamed to follow your dreams.
6. Remember as other give to you, to give in like fashion. “Pay it forward.” and finally, again:
7. There is nothing to fear but fear itself.

 

Walking down the street, you encounter a folded piece of paper on the sidewalk. You pick it up and read it and immediately, your life has changed. Describe this experience.

Source: Everything Changes | The Daily Post

The paper I found this morning that changed my life said:

Dear Traveler through life and time,

1. There is nothing to fear but fear itself.
2. Most people are just as scared as you are, don’t be intimidated.
3. Love all people.
4. Focus on your passions and do them as much as possible.
5. Don’t ever feel ashamed to follow your dreams.
6. Remember as other give to you, to give in like fashion. “Pay it forward.” and finally, again:
7. There is nothing to fear but fear itself.

 

We have the usual traditions in our hoe like getting the tree together at Christmas and Thanksgiving with the relatives but there are some deeper, more urgent ones we truly value and make sure our kids experience throughout the year.

If you have children, what traditions are you trying to instill in them? If you don’t have children, what is a tradition someone passed along to you?

Source: BlogHer Writing Lab December 2015 Prompts | BlogHer

There are a few things my wife and I try to instill in our children as traditions: College and education, celebrating individual triumphs, and traveling. These might be considered more “values” than traditions but the things we do are memories I have of what my parents did and ended up being positive traditions.

We’ve taken our children twice now to Cal State Fullerton to breathe in the atmosphere, get a bite to eat, and walk through spectacles like the multi-tiered library. If you’ve ever been to a University library, you know that smell of books. I want them to have a multi-sensory impression of what college is.

When someone in our family gets a certificate or other form of milestone or recognition, we make a point of going out to eat. I love these memories I have from my childhood. I want my kids to know we are proud of them and thus, we do this tradition in our modern family.

Finally, traveling. We have been so many places with our children: from San Diego to Hawaii, we’re slated to go in June of this year. I also have amazing memories of travel and I want my kids to feel and recognize a broader existence than just their local vicinity. My father told me travel is broadening and I want my kids to feel that breadth of like, traveling somewhere at least once a year. My job as a public school teacher has made this possible since I work only 184 days a year.