What does it mean we are a family?
I always speak about Mina being a family. For some the connotations of family may not be quite as warm and fuzzy as for others but there are some comforts around it that still hold appeal. Whether you get on or even like your family, when push comes to shove most people still have some level of care and even a sense of responsibility for the people they call family.
Family structures have changed over the years to be bigger with more and more of us living in multi generational homes and smaller with more people choosing to be single parent families. Regardless of the size and type of the family, a family is a family is a family!
"It takes a village to raise a child" is a well known African proverb which means that an entire community of people must interact with children so that they can experience and grow in a safe and healthy environment. This is the family - families make up a village - that is ML.
Children don't have a teacher and an assistant only, they have all the teachers and assistants to depend on. It is not uncommon to see a teacher walking around holding the hand of a child not in her class simply because they have connected in some way and at some time. Assistants and teachers carry, comfort and hold children from any class not only because they are helping their colleagues but because the children in the school are under all our care.
Like in a family, teamwork makes things run smoothly, happy people spread happiness and a little love goes a long way for someone in need.
We are as different from some of our family members as is possible, we are all a little less than perfect and make mistakes but our common values link us and make Mina Lopato the special and happy place we know.I always speak about Mina being a family. For some the connotations of family may not be quite as warm and fuzzy as for others but there are some comforts around it that still hold appeal. Whether you get on or even like your family, when push comes to shove most people still have some level of care and even a sense of responsibility for the people they call family.
Family structures have changed over the years to be bigger with more and more of us living in multi generational homes and smaller with more people choosing to be single parent families. Regardless of the size and type of the family, a family is a family is a family!
"It takes a village to raise a child" is a well known African proverb which means that an entire community of people must interact with children so that they can experience and grow in a safe and healthy environment. This is the family - families make up a village - that is ML.
Children don't have a teacher and an assistant only, they have all the teachers and assistants to depend on. It is not uncommon to see a teacher walking around holding the hand of a child not in her class simply because they have connected in some way and at some time. Assistants and teachers carry, comfort and hold children from any class not only because they are helping their colleagues but because the children in the school are under all our care.
Like in a family, teamwork makes things run smoothly, happy people spread happiness and a little love goes a long way for someone in need.
We are as different from some of our family members as is possible, we are all a little less than perfect and make mistakes but our common values link us and make Mina Lopato the special and happy place we know.
“Beneath every behaviour there is a feeling. And beneath each feeling is a need. And when we meet that need rather than focus on the behaviour, we begin to deal with the cause, not the symptom.”