Category Archives: Overcoming Obstacles in Life
Being Teammates in Decision-Making
How this married couple learned to work together as one instead of two individuals in love and marriage, they’d become, one whole family unit here! Translated… Thinking on it, the two of us deciding on “distance living”, it’s our practice … Continue reading
Come, Let the Teacher Give You a Hug
Trial by error, in your methods of approach, working with this boy who couldn’t express his upset verbally to the outside world yet, translated… A just started teaching as a teacher’s aide for special education in an elementary school, seeing … Continue reading
Of the Children Who Didn’t Get Drowned
An essay from the book I’m currently, “working on”, on the experiences of how we grew up into, adulthood, how the adults tried to drown the children, to TEACH them to swim, translated by me… We are all children, who … Continue reading
After Her Own Experiences with Cancer, She’d Set Up a Platform Forum to Help the Cancer Patients Find Their Own Voices
Using her own life experience, to help others, find a place, off of the Newspapers, translated… The rap singer who’d written “Violet is Afraid of Getting Shots” who became an overnight sensation online, Hsieh, used her own experiences of chemotherapy, … Continue reading
What My Son Gained from His First Part-Time Job
A quite important, milestone in his life, I’m thinking, his very first, part-time job! Translated… At the start of the winter vacation to date, my high school age son decided to find a part-time gig at a nearby seafood restaurant … Continue reading
An MVP All His Own
On teaching a child to become, more resilient, by helping him understand his own defeats, how even as he’d worked so hard, success, isn’t, always, a given…translated… My youngest sister-in-law posted on the Family’s Group, our nephew, An-An’s kindergarten winter … Continue reading
The Employer Phobia
The nightmares, that continued, even AFTER her father passed, after the nurse’s aides had, left and been, “switched hands”, and you can see, the compounding pressure this woman was under, translated… I’d Thought, that as My Father Got His Wish … Continue reading
The Native School Principal Used Education to Help the Students Rise Above from the Classes They Were Born into
The only way you can, of breaking away from your families’ socioeconomic statuses is through education, and this school principal sees that! Off of the Front Page Sections, translated… “I was born in the distant-regions, into poverty-stricken means, I believe, … Continue reading
When the Special Eds Students Gotten Certified for Their Technical Skill Sets
Written by an experienced educator, on how goal-setting, and working hard, can help someone overcome one’s own, shortcomings, off of the Front Page Sections, translated… Early in the morning, the head of student affairs of the middle school texted me: … Continue reading