The power of a letter
Not a letter as in a long letter to congress, but kind written with a permanent pens across the top of a workbook page. My son has just learned the power of an A as opposed to an A+ or a B. Why? Because he wanted to know. He hears all his cousins are getting A's in school, so he wanted to know why they were so excited. Of course, now I have to reassure him that no matter what letter I boldly scrawl across the top of his page, the only thing that matters is if he actually "got it", if he understood the material, and if he can use it in every day life. I am glad that the power of the letter is not holding him hostage as it once did to me.