The teacher said, “Thanks for coming. I wanted you to hear what I have to say.”
The father waited, thinking about what defense he could use this time. The teacher proceeded to go down a list of ten positive affirmations, or potential benefits, of the junior high “troublemaker.” When she finished, the father said, “And what else? Let’s hear the bad things.”
“That’s all I wanted to say,” she said.
That night when the father got home, he repeated the conversation to his son. Almost overnight, the troublemaker’s behavior changed. All because a teacher looked past the negatives to see the potential in a young man.
— Peter Lord, former pastor, Park Avenue Baptist Church, Titusville, Florida
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