tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77783765205168430902011-05-28T16:04:01.457-07:00together we reach victorySamnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7778376520516843090.post-8785265597585355092009-03-18T04:40:00.000-07:002009-03-18T04:49:31.789-07:00<div align="center"><strong><em><span style="color:#ffffcc;">MOM, DAD AND TEACHERS… HELP ME LEARN</span></em></strong></div><div align="center"><br />By; Malcolm MacDonald and for all the children who would say this to their parents and teachers if they could.</div><div align="center"><br />I learn when you teach me</div><div align="center">I learn when you play with me</div><div align="center">I learn when we catch each other on the run,<br />I learn what you want when you teach me</div><div align="center">I learn what I want when I play</div><div align="center">I learn what we both want when we play together,<br />I learn least when you do what I cannot do</div><div align="center">I learn most when you act like me</div><div align="center">I learn best when we do it together,<br />The more adult you act, the less I'll learn</div><div align="center">The more you act like me, the more I'll learn</div><div align="center">The more we act like each other, the more I'll become like you,<br />Believe it or not, I'm learning all the time</div><div align="center">So just respond to the little things I do</div><div align="center">And I'll learn more and more,<br />If I fail with you, I'll stay away</div><div align="center">If I stay away, I won't learn much</div><div align="center">Let me succeed with you, and I'll learn every time,<br />You are in such a hurry for me to learn</div><div align="center">But I just have to take my time</div><div align="center">So, wait for me and I'll do a lot,<br />I can learn a lot on my own</div><div align="center">But to communicate, I need to learn with you</div><div align="center">Show me how to be a person not just a student,<br />I wish you believed you were my best school</div><div align="center">I will learn most from you</div><div align="center">Let's make our life together the best school,<br />Mom, and Dad, I'm learning all the time</div><div align="center">I don't want to do it on my own</div><div align="center">Join in what I'm doing and I'll learn more than you expect,<br />The more you pay attention to me the more I'll learn</div><div align="center">If I do things you do not want, ignore me</div><div align="center">Then I'll learn what not to do,<br />My world is one of actions and sensations</div><div align="center">Your world is one of thoughts and words</div><div align="center">Only when you enter my world can I get into yours,<br />Mom and Dad, it's like we live on a staircase</div><div align="center">You are way up there and I am way down here</div><div align="center">Please come down and do things I can do,</div><div align="center">I know you want me to learn new things</div><div align="center">So just show me as we play the old things</div><div align="center">I'll learn the new when I'm successful doing the old,<br />I can't learn the impossible</div><div align="center">So, give me something possible to do</div><div align="center">And I'll please you every time,<br />Mom and dad</div><div align="center">Only you can help me best</div><div align="center">Come into my world first, then I'll come into yours.</div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center">How would you feel about this poem?</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7778376520516843090-878526559758535509?l=samelinj.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Samnoreply@blogger.com2