It’s something many of us tend to do, not intentionally, but it does happen.

Our children come home from school and we tend to ask the same old questions:

‘What did you do today?” or, ‘What did you learn?’

The answer’s almost always the same…nothing!’

Your child spent six hours at school and learned nothing…better catch up with his teacher in that case.

Right…had better catch up with that poor old acrobatic/juggler teacher who’s trying to help thirty kids understand a math problem, or some aspect of punctuation, at the same time dealing with subtle, but intrusive manic behavioral issues.

And all the while your kid learnt nothing.

But you know it’s a lie

You know it because you are already measuring his progress in the way he responds to things. The idle chit chat he had with you about how he can now read numbers up to a million, and that, did you know…(you didn’t), and yet, it seems he did nothing, at school.