Several years ago, it was popular
for Evangelical Christians to ask the question “What would Jesus do?” by
wearing W.W.J.D. bracelets. Though I no longer take part in this fad, questions
like these are always good to ask.
I don’t do this because I
constantly need to know what Jesus would do in a situation, this act sounds too
frantic to me, but because I want to differentiate myself from the current
situation. As I have talked about elsewhere, self-differentiation is the
ability to emotionally remove oneself from a troubling situation, and view it
from an alternate perspective. Then, when
we have “the ability to separate feelings and thoughts” we see that the
problems in front of us become smaller and smaller.
Organizational Skills Training
(OST) is a way for students with ADHD to do this. Its objective is to teach
children how to acquire “skills that can be linked to easily recognizable situations [that] are
directly relevant to children’s daily functioning at school and home.” Then through
a series of small steps, kids learn to manage school more effectively.
Whatever
questions confuse us, whether they are about education, our faith, or something
different entirely, making the challenges smaller and smaller until they are obsolete
is the goal.
