Friday, 27 August 2010 -- Day 250 (263)

Parents and educators are very similar.  We try to give our kids the knowledge and skills that will allow them to figure out any problem and situation.  We provide them the tools now to handle whatever comes their way in the future.  Here's a very simple example.  Remember those brownies I was making last night.  Well, one pan got a little overly done around the edges.  I managed to salvage the inside part, but I didn't want to throw the outsides pieces away.  I remembered a trick Mom taught me about softening up brown sugar when it starts to crystallize, and I hypothesized that it might work to soften up the brownie edges.too  I put the edges in a Ziploc bag w/ a piece of bread this morning, and now that I'm home at lunch, the pieces were softer.  It worked.  Mom gave me a basic tool (slice of bread to soften crystallized foods)  that I was able to apply to another problem beyond the original one (soften brownie edges the same way as brown sugar).  When we learn the basic lessons, we can then apply them to other situations for the rests of our lives.  Through those lessons then our parents and teachers will always be w/ us.