Avista Dan: Do It Right The 1st Time

Now, I don’t care what anyone tells you – parent/teacher conferences are as much about evaluating your parenting skills as it is about how well your kid is really doing in the classroom. No worries – my daughter is doing great (little sigh of relief!) Her teacher said something that really stuck with me. The skills she’s learning today builds a foundation for future learning. If she doesn’t get it the first time around – it will be a lot harder to catch up later. It occurred to me as a walked through 3 inches of snow in the school parking lot that what my daughter’s teacher said would be true of shoveling a path to your utility meter too. If you don’t shovel it when it first snows – it’s going to be really hard to catch up the next time it snows … and again and again. Ice could build up or snow could become compact and stay there all winter long/ Dan Kolbet , Avista spokesman. More here . (In this 2009 SR file photo, an Avista worker struggles to read a snowed-in meter)

Question: Do you agree with Dan — that doing something right the first time, and teaching kids the proper way to do things, prevents problems down the road?