Teaching and Learning with the Heart: Mindfulness and Appreciating Kids’ Slang
At my north-of-50 age, I feel like you’re supposed to start protecting the trivial cultural treasures of your particular generation and start railing against the crazy new trends, fashions, music, and expressions of the dumbed-down next generation—tomorrow’s treasures of today’s “kids.” Happy to say when I hear and use the recent but already ubiquitous phrase, “You feel me?” I’m all down with the kids. As a mid-career educator, I understand and use the phrase to mean, Do you understand this? Do you really get what I’m saying? Do you feel me? It’s still so totally new in the history of […]
