You may have noticed a theme running though this website - paths. As a parent, I am ever hopeful that my own children choose the right path as they travel through life. I found a quote a couple of years ago. "Prepare the child for the path, not the path for the child." I do not recall who was the first person to say it, but its message rings true. As parents and educators it is our job to prepare our children for the decisions that lay ahead of them. We do everything we can to teach them to make good choices, work hard, choose the right path. We cannot change the world to fit the needs of our children, but we can prepare them for the path.
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The Road Not Taken By Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. |