3). Pick one concept or idea from this week's assigned
reading and discuss it. Be sure to relate the concept/idea to your
personally by using examples from your life and/or experiences.
As basic as this concept seems, I wanted to talk about
cooperation in this post. I like the definition that our textbook offers for
cooperation and I think that we seldom think of cooperation as the act of
considering the outcome of a conflict in considering an interpersonal
relationship above our own needs. When reading through this section, I thought
of my daughter. I feel that I have really emphasized cooperation as a vital
problem-solving technique. For example, my daughter loves to color, but she is
a perfectionist. Because her expectations for her drawing sometimes outweigh
her physical capabilities, she can become frustrated easily. As a result, she
wants new paper. In my reluctance to use up another ream of printer paper, I
take the time to help her ‘reimagine’ her drawing. What she intended to be a
rectangle, turned out to be a little more lopsided than she was anticipating
for it to be. Thus, I help her to envision something different for her drawing,
and instead, she ends up with a ‘turtle shell’ and I help her to turn her
lopsided rectangle into a turtle. Both of us are satisfied with an outcome such
as this and while abstract in its delivery, I hope that I am teaching her to be
open to other people’s ideas and that working together to solve a problem can
be beneficial for everyone involved.
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