For this weeks entry, I would like to bless Alyse's entry "A Fluke". I really appreciate and can relate with the fact how hard it is to find the time to keep a balance between everything going on in your life. I have felt and overwhelming amount of stress with trying to balance the amount of homework and assignments and also with keeping a clean house, dinner on the table, making sure my fourteen month old son is cared for and played with, and also that I am maintaining a healthy relationship with my family and friends. It has been a lot on my plate and it has been starting to show now more than ever. I sometimes get so stressed that there is not enough time in the day to get everything done that I have been taking it out on others, and it is not ok.
I can also relate with Jacki's Entry #8 when she also talked about struggling with blogging. I have been finding it difficult in finding the motivation to write my blogs. I feel as though blogging was something totally different than what I am experiencing now. I thought that it was more like a journal where we would be able to free write, where WE were our own audience. With each entry I write, however, I have found that I was wrong. I always seem to be missing something in my blogs and I just can't seem to fix whatever is missing. Anytime I write now, I expect something to be missing and it makes me not look forward my next entry. Hopefully I will be able to get past these feeling so I can have the motivation to write my blogs each week.
I would also like to bless Kristine's entry on March 5th. She talks about her negative experiences with professors and how they would provide negative comments on almost all of her assignments she got back. I could definitely relate with her frustration and how discouraging it could be experiencing this with every assignment. I myself have had experiences with a few professors that no matter what you do, nothing you did was what he/she wanted. It made me dread completing any assignments because I knew what I would see when I got it back-a bunch of marks all over my paper. It was really frustrating because it made me feel like nothing I could do was right. This leads me to agree with Kristine in that teachers should provide 2 positive comments for every negative comment they place on a paper. As a teacher, that is something that I want to make sure I do. I don't want my students to ever feel the frustrations I have when it comes to writing. I want them to be able to enjoy it and I want my comments to help them rather then hurt them emotionally.
I guess I really didn't have one person to bless, address, or press. As I starting writing, I realized there were a lot of other entries that I could mention. I think that everyone brings up some really good points and issues, but these were just a few that stood out to me.
Krista, you mention in your entry that you think you keep missing something. From my perspective, I don't see you as missing anything. On the contrary, in each entry you identify important goals or strategies. It would be really helpful if you could share with your audience the details of how you will put these plans into action and to explore the challenges you may face. Your audience will benefit greatly from your willingness to use this journal as a place of exploration.
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