Art of Letting Go: The Fun and Pain of Classroom Advising

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Being an adviser, at times taxing, tedious, and stressing. Aside from the challenges advising brings, being connected to your students and sharing the hardships and fruits of education with them are truly fulfilling. As a classroom teacher, we experienced to be their second parent, friend, buddy, role model, and protector. It's an experience that is incomparable and unmatched.  

For a year and two months, I enjoyed the opportunity of being a parent and a friend. Those students that I handled brought the best in me. Though at times, they are causing troubles and mishaps, such petty things are just a natural part of the profession we are into. Apart from those negative things, advising makes us stronger and develop us as professional teachers. The emotional attachment and bonding that we had with those students make us humane and caring beings.

That is why being apart to those students whom you cherished and treated as your own children are the most heart-aching thing that an adviser could experience. Such experience is horrifying and devastating. It's like abandoning your children from nowhere and letting them on the wilderness. The feeling is so aching that you feel the guilt of abandoning them. 

But above these, teachers make sacrifices for the betterment of their students. Sometimes you left them for their common good - for the betterment of their behavior and discipline as abiding students. In the profession, there are teachers better than others when it comes to disciplining and managing students. At times, teachers closeness and deep attachment to students could result in problems of classroom management and disciplining students' behavior, aside from other factors. 

I remember the story of the sacrifice of the sea turtle mothers who left their children in the wilderness of the shoreline and the sea. It's a sacrifice that sea turtle mothers are doing just to let their children live and discover the world on their own, even for the expense of not sharing the goodness of this world with them. And this good trait has been passed for generations and this trait is truly what makes sea turtles survive and thrive in this world.

Advising no more for now, but the heart of a true adviser and a second parent for the student will forever remain and be remembered for eternity, especially by those students whom hearts had been inspired by you. It's goodbye for now, but not forever. 

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