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A glowing inner peace
Originally appeared on spirituality.com
For much of my life, I was led to believe that I was stupid. I grew up in a Middle Eastern culture, where women were taught to be submissive and silent. When I moved to the United Kingdom and had two daughters, I wanted them to have all the things I had lacked in my own upbringing. I didn’t want them to miss out on anything. So I encouraged them in their academic work as much as I could.
My efforts to help one of my daughters ran into a roadblock, however, when she was about to take her exams to move to a senior school. At the parents’ evening—a time when teachers and parents discuss the pupils and their progress—one of the teachers told me I needed to help Laura more with her academic work, as most parents did at this school.
I replied that I trusted Laura’s abilities and I knew she would do well without additional help. This was a bold thing for me to do. It was more usual for me to be submissive before the teacher’s authority.
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