Feeling happy and proud for someone
I'm not sure how many people know that I work with probationers under MCYS Volunteer Probation Officer program.
Anyway, I'm feeling particularly proud for my "kid" right now. I think I can safely say at this point I really don't think there are "hopeless", dumb, unmanageable children, but perhaps caregivers who lack the skills, knowledge and time for them.
It has almost been half a year since I took over this case, and I saw a host of problems. Disbelief in education, smoking, and other "typical" problems.
What I have seen over the past 6 months suddenly makes my Sunday visits so worthwhile and I am honored that he has allowed me to take this journey with him.
He is now the top student in his class and a student leader where he's studying, he's getting praises both in school and at where he is staying regularly. He thought himself stupid and incapable of studying and now he's updating me on his progress with the times table. He knows how to choose his friends but most of all I have seen him develop his social skills and how he interacts with people with respect rather than ridicule.
He didn't have a dream and now he wants a car, a house, a family and to provide for his current family. I think his greatest strength is his enduring desire to make his parents proud, and provide for them in future.
I doubt I'll ever be a dad, but I think if anything I can understand part of the pride our parents have for us, when we accomplish things. Getting our first job, our house etc. It is quite overwhelming I don't feel proud for myself, rather I feel proud that he can hold his head high, higher than a decorated academic for having tried his best, happy that he has picked up skills that will weather him in future trials and tribulations.
I love doing this!
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Anyway, I'm feeling particularly proud for my "kid" right now. I think I can safely say at this point I really don't think there are "hopeless", dumb, unmanageable children, but perhaps caregivers who lack the skills, knowledge and time for them.
It has almost been half a year since I took over this case, and I saw a host of problems. Disbelief in education, smoking, and other "typical" problems.
What I have seen over the past 6 months suddenly makes my Sunday visits so worthwhile and I am honored that he has allowed me to take this journey with him.
He is now the top student in his class and a student leader where he's studying, he's getting praises both in school and at where he is staying regularly. He thought himself stupid and incapable of studying and now he's updating me on his progress with the times table. He knows how to choose his friends but most of all I have seen him develop his social skills and how he interacts with people with respect rather than ridicule.
He didn't have a dream and now he wants a car, a house, a family and to provide for his current family. I think his greatest strength is his enduring desire to make his parents proud, and provide for them in future.
I doubt I'll ever be a dad, but I think if anything I can understand part of the pride our parents have for us, when we accomplish things. Getting our first job, our house etc. It is quite overwhelming I don't feel proud for myself, rather I feel proud that he can hold his head high, higher than a decorated academic for having tried his best, happy that he has picked up skills that will weather him in future trials and tribulations.
I love doing this!
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