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CONTACT INFORMATION:
Name: Ms. Lisa M. Pitingolo
Dept: Language Arts/Literature
Bldg: Nathan Hale, Room 111
Voicemail: Extension 30333
Extra Help Times:
Monday-Friday mornings, 8:00-8:30.
Additional times available by appointment.
To ensure that I do not schedule another meeting, please give me a day's prior notice.
Location: Room 111
ACCEPTANCE
I accept you.
I approve of you.
I am satisfied with who you are today not merely who you will be tomorrow.
You have a right to your uniqueness.
I do not need to change you.
There is a constant quality within you that I like even when it hides beneath some of your actions.
You see, I like you, but may not like everything you do or say.
I can separate your actions from you because I realize that you don’t always do what you want to do…...that you are not always aware and in control……and that you are struggling to be happy in the best way you know…just as I am.
So you can fall on your face, change your mind, get in trouble and I will not laugh or condemn you.
I will not call you names like “failure” or “trouble-maker” or hypocrite.”I will not pin labels on you like “dumb” or “lazy” or “bad.”Instead of making judgments about who you are I will concentrate on how I feel about your actions.
I will not call you “bad” but I will tell you if I feel “bad” about what you have done.
In this way you can know my limits and realize that you are loveable
even though some of your actions are not.
But I must be honest, the more you hurt me, the harder it is to accept you.
I cannot be forever patient and tolerant because I am human and need acceptance too.
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