This is water

I found the "This is water"  video to be very interesting.  I adored how the video had specific words pop up onto the screen when he felt he needed to put emphasis on certain things that he was saying.  From the very beginning, I felt that David Foster grabbed your attention with his fish story. I think that we go through our days doing the same thing over and over and we forget to step back every so often and slow down or actually look at a situation differently than we have been our whole lives.  David Foster made this point one that I really thought over.

One other section of the video that really caught my eye was when they were in the supermarket and the woman yelled at her child.  I nanny for three families and I also work at the Romeoville Rec Center and I could almost feel what that mother was feeling.  One of the children I watch isn't the most behaved child and my initial reaction when we're out somewhere and he's acting up is to do what I do when we're not in public, give him three warnings and then send him to his room.  Since we weren't at his house or anywhere that I could seclude him, I was confused on what to do in this situation.  I ended up only giving him one warning and after that I told him he couldn't go play at the park when we went there (he had been acting like this all day and I had previously warned him while we were at his house). This caused him to throw a huge tantrum while we were eating lunch at McDonald's.  I was so embarrassed that I ended up driving home, luckily it was close to his nap time, and made him go into his room for a nap. I know when I eventually have kids I'll probably have times like the mom in the video, but I hope to think about it more than she did. I don't feel like parents should go off on their kids like that, even if they are super stressed out.

Overall, I found the video really interesting and I'd love to hear his full speech one day.