“The student is not above the teacher, nor a servant above his master.” Matthew 10:24
If I want to get my daughter to tell me about her day at school, I never directly ask her. Instead, I ask her to play teacher. Very quickly, I find out the day’s lesson and (bonus!) what the teacher told her during the day!
If my daughter doesn’t end up teaching in some capacity, I’ll be surprised. She’s seen her mom and dad do it enough in her first five years. The fact that she’ll eagerly play teacher says a lot about her heart.
Even more instructive is when my daughter tries to teach me something she learned at school that she thinks I don’t know.
Today, I got a soccer lesson from her. This school year, she switched her extracurriculars at daycare, going from dance to soccer. On Wednesdays, she comes home wearing a jersey and eager to show me the move she learned. Today, it was the pass and the stop.
“You’re doing good, dad!” she told me.
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