Teach your children well
You know that whole thing about intuition right? I mean Oprah dedicated her recent issue to it, The Power of Now talks about it, and Blink was all about using your gut to guide you through life. Of all the things that we were not thinking of as we juggled the mess our life was in before leaving for vacation, the one thing that seemed the most certain was that Tin would start at the Montessori school on September 1st and we would walk him across the Magnolia Bridge every day to his little school where a great educator awaited him.
So imagine the surprise when we learned that she had retired last month and that the school was moving and there was a crisis. Gadzooks. I was able to smile at the news though because it went in the category of “see you think you know everything but you don’t know jack.” Then we are now crossing our fingers that Tin gets into the Waldorf school across town, and the money we saved by refinancing, well it is now going to go to Waldorf instead. You could look at this situation and be amused – in one way, it is good we refinanced because we had the money to now put to the school we were not expecting to be sending our child to, or you could sulk and say, here we go again, I never win, it’s always take take take.
But the real lesson here is that why would we send our child to a school that was not upfront with us about transitions and why would we send our child to a school where something that has been known for quite some time was now a crisis? That is not a learning environment we want for Tin. We’re not the best examples of how to handle life, but we’re at least trying to learn how to be the best examples and to make wise choices. And regardless of whether that is a lifetime of learning to be had, it is better than anything else I can come up with right now.
Let’s say those secular prayers that Tin gets in Waldorf – if that is where he is supposed to go – and take a collective breath.