When I was a girl nobody was on the autistic spectrum, nobody had hyper-activity, nobody had Aspergers or OCD. We just had normal little boys who were sometimes full of energy and liveliness who didn't like being cooped up in a classroom. Who didn't want to read and write and do math, but wanted to grow up quickly and work on the farm with their Dad. Now there is this utter nonsense of labelling children for life with something which is actually quite normal and it doesn't do them any good. Give a child a label and they will conform to it and this just intensifies any underlying problem which may or may not be there. In my day they didn't do that, but they did label people as failures and sent them to Secondary schools. I went to one for two years but then passed the 13+ exam and escaped to the Grammar School. When we were 50 the adults who had been to the Secondary School met up for a reunion and I was struck by how many of them were very bitter about the way they had been treated, even though many of them had become successful business men. We should stop labelling children and adults alike. Get to know them and accept them for who they really are.
First of all thanks to Fat Prophet for your interest. I see from your blog you are having trouble commenting. To get back to my assessed service. Criticism albeit constructive is harder for some to take than others. I felt a little crushed after my assessed service but then remembered I had recorded it on my dictaphone. I listened to it all through and although my assessors were quite right about me speaking a little quickly and rushing from item to item, I was actually very pleased with the content of my sermon and how I presented it. So I have decided to take heart. I highly recommend other trainees to record your services. You can hear your good points and your bad and there is no argument about it, it is all caught on the recorder.
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