The Daughter I Never Had

Kate-Lynn's story is truly inspirational and it is the first story by a teacher. It unfolds the sense of family and closeness that could be created as a teacher. As a teacher, you may never know how just a few words that you say could positively impact their lives forever.



" I have been a teacher for about twenty three years. Many children have passed through my hands with both positive and negative outcomes. However, four years ago, I had the greatest experience that I have ever had during my years of teaching. On my first day in a new school, I was met with the usual resentment that comes with the loss of a favored teacher and the introduction of a new one. Owing to the fact that I was not as young and stylish as their previous teacher I was not ver welcomed. For the first week the children barely paid much attention to me. It was like teaching teddy bears. They just looked at me and hardly ever responded to anything that I said.

Anyway to cut a long story short (I tend to get too caught up with my own stories) there was this particular girl in the class who just did not seem to fit in the sense that she was not really being resentful but she appeared to be in her own world all the time and she always looked as if she wanted to cry. Concerned, I asked her to stay back for a few minutes after school. i enquired as to the reason for her distance in thougt butshe maintained that everything was fine. A few days later I gathered from another studentclearly looking for mischief that the girl lived in a tailer park, her mother was a drunk and drug addict and she had been sexually molested on prrevious occasions by the men that frequented their trailer. Also, I learnt that she worked at a fast food restaurant in order to put herself through school.

My persistence eventually led ****** to finally confess that eveything was true and that she was contemplating suicide.My first innitiative was to contact the wellfare department who thankfully dealth with the issue in due timing by placing her in a foster home. However, i felt a connection between us that urged me to adopt her. She is so intelligent and mannerly and hardworking that she fit the description of the child that I always imagined but could never get. I eventually adopted her and made her my daughter. She even carries my surname. Today, she is at law school persuing a degree in Civil Law and she is a straight A student. I am so proud of her and thankful that I met her for she made up abundantly for the daughter I never had and never will be able to get."

Being a mother is more than just doing the basic provision of necesities. Whether bilogical or non- biological, your child needs your support metally and immotionally and if you let them down then they will trust no one to be on their side.

Such a sad story with a beautiful ending or continuance  I should say. As teachers, we sometimes do not even realise the difference that just showing our concern can make in a child's life. There are signs that we miss and opportunities that we neglect to take. We may believe that it is the job of the parent but we must bear in mind that sometimes there is no support at home and the students depend on us for nurturing. So as you go about your career as a teacher, look for signs of a child that is crying out for help and please do not ignore that call.

A caring smile and persistent concern is all that it takes.



A Friend for Life " Aaron's Story)

Lots of close buddies are made in school and kept for a lifetime!

In most cases, school is the starting point of finding friends that last a lifetime. Schooling is not just about academics but also about grooming us socially. It is always a blessing when we make friends in school and we maintain that closeness after school. They always help to make our school experience better. Let's look at Aaron's experience:

" Hello scholaholics. This blog was an awesome idea! I'm gonna keep my experience short and to the point, (I'm that kinda guy... lol) Alright so my dad got some new job so we had to relocate to a new town. I was in my senior year and that was a total blow for me! All my friends we there, man... my whole life was there. Well, guess what, I had to leave it all. When I got to this new town, I hated it! It was too quite, lame and uneventful. I knew no one and the people did not seem friendly at all! Ok so I went to this new school too as expected and right away I wanted to just catch a plane and GO BACK HOME! In my opinion, it consisted of a lot of jerks and not so pretty girls (expect for a few here and there). Within the first week, I met this dude that I'd call Shane. He seemed kool and we hang out at school and stuff but we weren't so close. In the meantime I was keeping in contact with my buddies back at my old town. Man did I miss them! As time went by I began to adapt to the environment at my new school and pretty much started to like it. Shane and I remained friends and after about six months we were bonifide best buddies. Everyone knew about Aaron and Shane. We did practically everything together. When I was in trouble, you knew authomatically that he was too and vice versa. lol Oh yeah I must mention that my old buddies, well after a while it seemed that I was the only one doing the calling and visiting so I knew that the ties had broken. So much for "frenz for life."
Anyway Shane, up to this point, nine years later is still my best friend. Even though we went to diffferent colleges we still maintained that bond and today everyone still knows about our friendship. We have both persued our dream careers and work at different companies but we still live in the same town. I just wanna say that meeting my friend for life was the greatest experience that I had at school because he made all my experiences awesome."



Aaron, thank you for your positive feedback. We will continue to keep those school memories alive. Your story is certainly one of the many inspiring and lovely stories about lifelong friendships built in school. I hope that you and Shane maintain this strong bond no matter what.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!



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Just wishing everyone a blessed and prosperous new year that is filled with productivity. Go out, have fun and give thanks that you are alive! Start the year off right by making someone smile or by giving to someone who is less fortunate. Look out tomorrow for another school experience. Remember to leave your experiences! We want to hear about them! Simply select the FILL OUT MY FORM button at the top of the page. I wonder how many times you have written the previous year when writing the date in school? I rememeber that every new year I would write the correct day and month but the wrong year! Hopefully someone would conquer it this year. lol. Have a wonderful day everyone.

Fatal End " Kim's Story"

Yesterday we looked at Chris' Rather Sad experience at school.

However, Today we will focus on an experience that is incomparable in sadness to Chris' Story. It is a reality that we all must face, that is, sometimes the most tragic experiences in our lives hit us during our schooling. Let's look at Kim's Story:

"Twins possess a bond that is not easily broken" Kim

" My sister and I were inseparable! I guess that is the usual thing with twins. However, the relationship between my sister that I went deeper than us just being twins. It was as if we were conjoined and possessed some degree of telepathy. She always knew what I was thinking or what I wanted and I the same for her.

Sometimes the bond of friendship or kinship is so close that one person always knows what the other is thinking!

Anyway, we had just finished our last exam and couldn't wait to say goodbye to High School and hello College! That day, after exams we were supposed to go to a friend's house. But before we go to her house we decided to drive around town in our friend's car proclaiming our "release from bondage."  During our drive, our friend decided that we should pose as adults and purchase alcohol from a liquor store. ******** was not too much in favor of that idea. However, being the "wilder One" I was able to persuade her that we should go as none would go if the other was not going(that's how close we were). She agreed and my friend parked her convertible on the opposite side of the road a two blocks away from the liquor store so that no one would know that we were going to buy liquor and tell our parents. This.... This is when .... when it happened. As we were walking to the liquor store ***** kept telling me that she had a bad feeling about it and I was jokingly calling her chicken. All of a sudden, out of practically no where, a motorbike just ...... it all happened so fast that it was minuted after when people started to scream and run that I realised that **** my twin sister, my soul sister, my best friend, my life had been hit. I saw her on the ground covered in blood with a burst in her head and bruises everywhere and not moving. I think that it was at that point that I fainted. I only remember up to that point.

Today, six years later, I am constantly filled with guilt. Even when I try to forget about the accident, when I look in the mirror, I don't just see myself, but I also see her face with the crack in her head and the blood and bruises. I have nightmares all the time and have been taking sleeping pills since then. I often wonder why i had to persuade her to go to that liquor store. If it was not for me going along with my friend's suggestion, she could have been alive. we could have just gone to her house. But that is not the reality, It just goes to show the impact that we can have on people when they believe in us......."

When our losses are too hard to bare Jesus is always at our side. All we have to do is ask because he is our comforter and healer.

Tears flowed from my eyes as I read Kim's story. Having myself lost a loved one via a shooting I could somehow relate to how she feels. The difference is that she had a closer bond with the lost loved one and so the pain must be even greater.

If you have had a similar experience and you would like to

give Kim some advice on how to overcome her grief then please leave

your comments. She will be looking forward to them.

Also if you, yourself are trying to recover from the grief

of losing a loved one, then I have linked an ebook that

gives advice on measures that can be taken to overcome this grief.

Simply click on the post title to get this ebook.

Also at the bottom of the blog I have enclosed another link

to an ebook that has a lot of encouraging

reviews and recommendations.

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