b'LIFE AND DEATH ARE IN YOUR WORDSTHE EXPECTATIONS WE SET FOR OUR CHILDREN BECOME A SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECYBy Jeff Willie | ContributorIn life, you dont get what you want, you get what you expect.the second year this small school district was integrated with The key word is Expectations.Your word choice and yourblack and white students attending school together. Myself, nonverbals like body language determine your expectations.plusfourother13-and14-year-oldAfrican-American Whatdoyouexpectfromyourchildren?Whataretheboys where behaving inappropriately in class.Our math modeling behaviors your children are seeing? What are theteacher needed to get our attention, which he did in a very words you are speaking into your childrens lives? There isinappropriate way. I quote, You boys are STUPID; you are life and death in words. never going to amount to anything and do not take algebra I am reminded of my eighth-grade math class a few yearsin the ninth grade. Yes, the teachers word choice was totally ago (1972) in a small school district in East Texas. It wasinappropriate,anditwaswrongforhimtospeakthose CONTINUED ON PAGE 5048GoodLifeFamilyMag.comSEPTEMBER | OCTOBER 2019'