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    Hello,

    When I start typing up a thread post, I try to hear the voice in my head. I try to hear what other people hear when they read it. I wonder about the voice you hear- let me know.

    Currently I feel blessed to have a degree and a job. The two do not directly relate, but psychology is always useful in the realm of education (whether for yourself, the kids, parents or coworkers...though primarily I use it on myself). Along with being a teaching assistant and working in the after school program, I am a staff writer for a local neighborhood paper.

    Through most of my life I feel that I have been running away from my passion. I've been told throughout elementary, middle and high school that I have a good writing style. What do I do when I get to college? Major in psychology, minor in art. Did I write much? It was a struggle. There is the heart and the head trying to take the wheel.

    I feel like I have some catching up to do and one way to grow is to place yourself in an environment that is both challenging and nurturing. This is what I am hoping to get from the forums. My biggest fear is that I will shy away from it, forget to post or get to the point where I let it go stale. The challenge I have presented myself is to not let this forum fall to the wayside and integrate it into my life. Therefore, I tell myself (even now) use your common sense but making mistakes means learning.

    So to those that are still reading, thank you for sticking with me and I hope to hear from you about the voice you hear as I type.

    -Sarah M.

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    Hi Sarah. Welcome to WF.
    “The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.” ~ James Allen

    "Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." ~ Henry Van Dyke


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    Welcome to the forums, Sarah.
    The sand of the desert is sodden red, -
    Red with the wreck of a square that broke; -
    The Gatling's jammed and the colonel dead,
    And the regiment blind with dust and smoke.
    The river of death has brimmed his banks,
    And England's far, and Honour a name,
    But the voice of schoolboy rallies the ranks,
    "Play up! play up! and play the game!"

    Vitai Lampada (Sir Henry Newbolt, 1897)

    From the Home of Sir Henry Newbolt (a blog)



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    Welcome to WF Sarah

    I am currently studying Psychology myself and thoroughly enjoy it. Hope you enjoy your time here with us.

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    Hello Sarah, and welcome to the forums. I do agree with you that being a teacher needs psychology - we teachers are not only educators, but parents, doctor/nurse, sociologist, psychologist... policeman/woman? A pity we only get one salary!!! I do love my job, and get along with those youngsters. Can you imagine, I still get email from students who were in my class 20 years ago?


    Nickie

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