Comments on Zook Book Nook: Unleashing Our Inner Steve Jobs: Rule Six

I can't seem to do that for my kids too. Perha...

2011-10-23T01:13:52.700-07:00

I can't seem to do that for my kids too. Perhaps I expect too much of them and have very little patience when it comes to my own kids. I seriously need to work on that. In fact in church today, I prayed for more patience with my kids so that I may be a better educator to them.

The two ladies who've commented covered the an...

2011-10-22T12:08:30.057-07:00

The two ladies who've commented covered the angles I was looking at. I really could not have said it better and agree wholeheartedly.

I've often wondered this too about Steve Jobs....

2011-10-22T04:41:23.135-07:00

I've often wondered this too about Steve Jobs... actually, with all the amazing stuff that he did, I often wondered if he truly had the time he felt he needed with his family, because of how hard I know it is to balance family and work.

I totally agree with what Cristina said before me - being a biology teacher sounds a little like being a grandparent (or at least how the grandparents in my life describe it!).

My mother-in-law, who helps me with babysitting, said to me the other day, "How do you do all this?"

To which I replied, "What do you mean? You watch my 3 kids for me - you do it too!"

"But at the end of the night," she said "I get to go home... that's the big difference in being a grandparent vs being a parent that I've notice!"

So True!

probably because your students didn't wake you...

2011-10-22T03:10:54.960-07:00

probably because your students didn't wake you up in the middle of the night and then up at the crack of dawn... you cared for them, but a mother's love really is all consuming and it requires excessive amounts of energy... on top of laundry, cooking, cleaning, and all that good stuff.... I;m willing to bet that when Steve Jobs went home, he probably told his kids... not right now honey, daddy needs a drink, LOL

seriously, parenting is the toughest job because of all we invest in our kids. we can't be 100% all the time

or maybe, we're just getting old, LOL