Managing CLAY and managing children have a lot of similarities. one, you need to know what the clay is made of. You have to handle it. This includes stretching, throwing, coiling and other things you do to clay. It would be good to know the level of moisture, the malleability, the resistance level, and only then can you explore its potential.
You also have to, very importantly, do what you desire with the amount of material you have and fashion it when it is moist. Why? Because when it hardens, sorry man, you have to live with the outcome.
Doesn't that ring a bell for parents? We have to know the personality type of our children and see the best-fit teaching and communication style for them. Parenting is like clay, trial and error and we need to do hands-on so that we know what is the best time to teach, encourage and to chastise - "Teachable Moment" is the term. Once we know the substance of our children, then we can fashion something out of them. This is how GOd fashion us as well, for we remember that He is the POTTER and we are the clay.
But most of all, when I do clay, i do it out of love and passion. Only then will i feel satisfied with the outcome.
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