Subtitle – Becoming a Better Manager (1)
2024-1-26
Rephrase
Before Correction
My son said to me he likes his teachers assigned task to him, because teachers are professional and then they know how to assign the big task, how to divide the big task into the small steps, so he said that he could follow up the instructions from his teacher.
Rephrasing
Interestingly, my son has previously mentioned he likes how his teachers at school assign tasks to him. He says that they are clear and succinct explanations with bigger tasks broken down into manageable steps.
Before Correction
I should show why I making the requesting because when I try to let him understand why he should do that, and he can follow the directions very well, if he can’t understand them well he just insist, he doesn’t want to do that. I think that is the first step of argument. Sometimes my explanation is longer than he expects, my husband also points out my explanation is very long it makes people very exhausted to listen to me, sometimes I just don’t know explain concisely.
Rephrasing
I think it’s often what triggers our arguments that perhaps I’m not the most eloquent when giving reason for my requests and I can’t articulate in a clear and gentle way why I want my son to do something. This could come across to him as bossy or arrogant.
Vocabulary
- break down something(big part) into (small part)
- to come across (as something)
to appear or to be interpreted as something, even if that’s not your intention’
