I have realized that teaching the girls is an everyday occurrence. Yes, art is my subject with Yaya, but there are a variety of other things I can be teaching her and Norah at all times. That's why something entitled "Tricks of the Trade" has entered our lives.
Every woman knows that being a woman is a trade, a profession of sorts. You may be a teacher, but you were a woman first. And as every woman grows up, it is the job of older and well-seasoned women to teach them the tricks of the trade.
Tricks of the Trade:
1. If you spill yoghurt on your shirt, use your spoon to lift it off of your shirt and then eat it. This should be done before you ever think about reaching for your napkin.
2. If you don't have a hair band for your hair and yet need to put it up, use a pencil.
3. Some things have shells or protective casings around them. If you pick up something of this nature, like a banana, orange, or hard-boiled egg, and then decide a few seconds later that you don't want it- you can put it back. But if something does not have a protective casing around it, like an olive, than you must eat it or you will suffer penalties and stares from those you are with when you try to put it back.
Those are the three tricks of the trade we have discussed and reviewed several times over the past few weeks. And it's working: Yaya asked me today if I would help her put a pencil in her hair. Of course, I got distracted and forgot, but the point is: she asked! She has a deeper understanding of what it is to be a woman.
This morning I also revised the second trick of the trade with an addendum:
2. If you don't have a hair band for your hair and yet need to put it up, use a pencil or the combination of a plastic drinking cup and a clothespin.
Every woman knows that being a woman is a trade, a profession of sorts. You may be a teacher, but you were a woman first. And as every woman grows up, it is the job of older and well-seasoned women to teach them the tricks of the trade.
Tricks of the Trade:
1. If you spill yoghurt on your shirt, use your spoon to lift it off of your shirt and then eat it. This should be done before you ever think about reaching for your napkin.
2. If you don't have a hair band for your hair and yet need to put it up, use a pencil.
3. Some things have shells or protective casings around them. If you pick up something of this nature, like a banana, orange, or hard-boiled egg, and then decide a few seconds later that you don't want it- you can put it back. But if something does not have a protective casing around it, like an olive, than you must eat it or you will suffer penalties and stares from those you are with when you try to put it back.
Those are the three tricks of the trade we have discussed and reviewed several times over the past few weeks. And it's working: Yaya asked me today if I would help her put a pencil in her hair. Of course, I got distracted and forgot, but the point is: she asked! She has a deeper understanding of what it is to be a woman.
This morning I also revised the second trick of the trade with an addendum:
2. If you don't have a hair band for your hair and yet need to put it up, use a pencil or the combination of a plastic drinking cup and a clothespin.
Happy Trekkie Tuesday!
1 comment:
Kate. That picture with your hair pulled up in a cup just made me laugh out loud in class.
Proud of you! :)
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