I began tutoring part time late last year. My initial goal was to leverage my ability to do well on standardized tests and charge a premium for helping others improve their SAT/ACT scores. That's still a long term goal, but the company I currently work for has given me mainly elementary school age children and I'm more than a bit surprised to discover how much I enjoy working with my students. Some of it's that I perceive that I'm making a difference and I can already see more than one student begin to get through the required material more quickly.
But most of the newly discovered joy has come from getting to know my students. I'm beginning to regret in a serious way the fact that at my age, I am not likely to father a daughter to raise as I have begun to understand the meaning of the phrase: "daddy's little girl". As I begin to mourn this loss, it occurs to me that there are so many women who, for whatever reason, never got to be "daddy's little girl" either. And I can't help but wonder how much of an impact that's had on how the current culture is today.
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