Teaching+My+Mother

My Mother and The TV    Over winter break, my parents bought a new television for our living room. My mother, being the woman that she is, had no idea how to work this new television. She decided to wake me up at 8 in the morning on a Saturday so I could show her how to use it. She was trying to watch a dvd and that meant that the input on the tv needed to be set correctly. She thought I was speaking gibberish when I told her this.  Obviously the linguistic teaching method didn’t work out at all so I decided to use an interpersonal and bodily-kinesthetic method of teaching. I showed her which buttons to press to make it so that she could watch a dvd. It took a few attempts for her to master the button pressing of that one single button, but she got it down eventually. Hopefully she retains that information. Unfortunately, as I was walking away from my class of television remotes 101, she called me back to ask how to turn up the volume. Then I started all over again.