Sunday, February 04, 2007

At PostSecret

Posted by Kay Olson at 1:19 AM

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5 comments:

Penny L. Richards said...

Oh excellent! That beats all the secret lovers and petty crimes confessed at postsecret, by a mile.

I suspect there are quite a few passionate teachers who start from that kind of childhood experience. (Here's mine: my kindergarten teacher assured me that my parents had ruined my life by letting me learn to read before K. I went home and stood on my head, hoping that would make me forget--and didn't dare tell my mom about that conversation until five years later. The same teacher tried to make me right-handed, she moved my marker from hand to hand every chance she got. This was in 1972. For years after, I wouldn't let teachers see what I knew, just in case it would get me in trouble again.)

2/04/2007 8:57 AM
Penelope said...

I think that's a fabulous secret! I wish there were more like it, but also that the writer didn't feel the need to make it a secret.

2/04/2007 6:23 PM
Kay Olson said...

Penny, traumatic for you, but an excellent story! My Kindergarten teacher was wonderful when she learned I could already read. She just told my parents to get the kid something new to do so I wouldn't become bored and troublesome. It was piano lessons, which I did for ten years.

2/05/2007 12:11 AM
Penny L. Richards said...

Now see, I was "hopeless" at piano lessons, and hated them, but I'm still grateful for them--it was my piano teacher who first realized that I needed glasses. (And she played the organ at my wedding, many years later.)

I think of the Kindergarten incident a lot now that I have a six-year-old daughter who's also left-handed and an early reader. What little comments will stick in her memory the way Miss Murray's did for me? The way the Sylvan tutor's did for the PostSecret writer?

2/05/2007 8:47 AM
Kay Olson said...

I do have a memory from age six that sticks with me. A babysitter told me I was a horrible singer. I really think those sorts of statements to young minds are evil. True, I have never sung well, but I was always sure I couldn't.

2/05/2007 11:58 PM

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