A bit ironic, eh?
My mom has decided she wants to do drug and alcohol counseling. Since this necessarily involves going back to school, she has signed up for two dance classes and a math class this semester. Hasn't been in school for approximately fifteen years, and jumps in with a full class load. She's been pretty damn tired every day after classes (she has them Monday-Wednesday-Friday), but hasn't missed a day and is even keeping up on her homework.
The ironic bit?
I'm helping her with her math homework.
Bit backwards, the kid helping their mom with her homework. But when have I ever done anything in a normal fashion?
I remember my mom helping me with my homework...but the last thing I can remember her helping with was memorizing the times tables. So, second or third grade or thereabouts. She's in the absolute-beginning math class, I think at least partly die to panicking while taking the assessment test, but she really =is= having problems already. Her most recent homework involved multiplying and reducing fractions, and she picked up everything I went over with her really quickly, but she spends way too much time putting herself down, saying she's 'too stupid' to do math and such. I've had students do likewise before, and it's only the ones I can convince they =aren't= idiots who survive the classes. I'm not sure what I need to do to get my mom turning her mind in the right direction since she, of course, is the one who taught =me= all the depressive low self-esteem dead ends when I was a kid.
At this point, I'm just going to keep plugging along, and hope she sees she's doing more and more on her own, without my tutoring.
You know, I really hate that look my mom gets when she thinks she's useless. I think it would be so cool to see her proud of herself for once.
The ironic bit?
I'm helping her with her math homework.
Bit backwards, the kid helping their mom with her homework. But when have I ever done anything in a normal fashion?
I remember my mom helping me with my homework...but the last thing I can remember her helping with was memorizing the times tables. So, second or third grade or thereabouts. She's in the absolute-beginning math class, I think at least partly die to panicking while taking the assessment test, but she really =is= having problems already. Her most recent homework involved multiplying and reducing fractions, and she picked up everything I went over with her really quickly, but she spends way too much time putting herself down, saying she's 'too stupid' to do math and such. I've had students do likewise before, and it's only the ones I can convince they =aren't= idiots who survive the classes. I'm not sure what I need to do to get my mom turning her mind in the right direction since she, of course, is the one who taught =me= all the depressive low self-esteem dead ends when I was a kid.
At this point, I'm just going to keep plugging along, and hope she sees she's doing more and more on her own, without my tutoring.
You know, I really hate that look my mom gets when she thinks she's useless. I think it would be so cool to see her proud of herself for once.