Working Class Parenting: Motivation, Education and Inspiration For Parents

Albert Einstein once said, "I get most joy in life out of music." I am always a bit hesitant to discuss this matter. Typically upon bringing it up I'm stereotyped as a closed minded Christian extremist. The topic is music. Hold on, hear me out. Let's remove the holiness factor out of the equation for a moment and focus solely on common sense. When you workout at the gym, you like fast up beat music, when your wanting time to relax you may play instrumental and when wining and dining your spouse, you play romantic tunes. Get any of these genres in with the wrong activity and your experience might me a bit different. Now that is said, we can agree that music can and has a profound effect on us as individuals and society as a whole. Bands have set fashion trends, patented slogans and influenced the sales of countless products, Why? The answer is twofold; the celebrity status of the artist and the influence of their music. If music can persuade an adult to action or ...

Some time back a similar study was conduct in both a private bible college and a public middle school. Students were randomly divided into two groups and given to teachers. The teachers were told one group was made up of some of the schools brightest students, while the other teacher was told his/her students were slower to average students. From the beginning the teachers “expectations” were tainted by the stereotype placed on each of the classes. The students in the quote unquote bright class were pushed and motivated to find the answers, while the students in the slower to average class were catered. When a student didn’t know the answer, the teachers simply moved to the next student. In the bright class, if a student was having trouble learning it was chalked up to a bad day, while in the slower class it was merely understood that they were slower. If you have been following our posts in the last two weeks, discussion has ensued on the epidemic of teen mediocrity. This is an...