Teaching for the future . . .
One father is supervising the recreation of his young son at
the neighborhood playground on a warm, sunny, spring afternoon. The child is totally absorbed in his
activities on the swing set, climbing bars and sliding board alone, in sequence
and then back again. The father finds that his participation has metamorphosed
from a formerly active playing partner/spotter/parent hovering around or
actually physically on the equipment itself, into a passive overseer on the
sidelines. Eventually a group of four or
five adolescent males tumble haphazardly down the block directly across the
street from the playground. The bright, crystalline Sunday atmosphere is
shattered by a harsh ringing (to the father) of a string of current and
colorful profanity followed by uproarious laughter on the part of the
group. The young boy at the playground
is distracted from his joyful reverie by the laughter an looks up in the
direction of the young men in the distance.
The father is somewhat, but not noticeably to his son, perturbed by the
events.
Should the father:
A.
Retrieve his child from the playground and march
furious and determined to the group and immediately lecture the teenagers on the
inappropriateness of their verbal onslaught with his son’s attention (and maybe
or maybe not, his interest) captured by the unusual development but absorbing
all aspects of it (including the profanity, which his father has repeated in
the course of the harangue)?
B.
Quizzically and humorously suggest to his young
son that, since the sound of the ice cream truck’s bells was perceived in the distant
direction of home, he believed the two of them would greatly benefit from the
pursuance and overtaking of that very truck with the object being the purchase and
consumption of a delightfully cool and satisfying ice cream?
(Our future depends upon your answer.)
What do you think?
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