Stories of Us - September 4, 202009/04/2020
Partnership Educators, My sons all played video games while growing up. Mario Bros was a staple at our house. The boys, who almost all are in the thirties now, still talk about some of the games they used to play and laugh about how long it took them to "beat the game" or "pass a level". It always fascinated me how they would fail over and over again until they made it, with great personal joy by the way. In comparison, my wife and I might start a level and fail a few times until we would give up. I am sure you have had similar experiences. Why would we do that? Truthfully we wouldn't always give up. Sometimes we would keep trying. Most times we would keep trying when we had an expert sitting by our side helping guide us. Who was our expert? Our sons. They certainly had the skill for some of these games at a very high level and could explain how to make it through. With the guide by our side, we felt that we could do it. We no longer saw the task as unachievable.
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