Recovering from a Gold Star Addiction #SOL15
"But it's alright now. I learned my lesson well. See you can't please everyone, so you got to please yourself." -Ricky Nelson, "Garden Party" My class has been reading Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt. On Friday, we watched the video Lynda created where she read aloud Chapter 17 and then answered questions about the book and her process. At one point, Lynda spoke about praise and how we all want it, but we have to be careful not to rely too much on it. To stop looking for validation outside ourselves and find it within. Gretchen Rubin described her need for "gold stars" in The Happiness Project. I'm a gold-star-loving-gal myself. Nothing makes me happier than the warm, fuzzy, kind, encouraging words about something I've done right. I've saved notes and letters from former teachers and now former administrators, parents, and students. On the hard days, these words help fill up my deflated sai...