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That little voice inside my head By Nicole McKeon WNC Parent columnist
Let me introduce you to my biggest enemy, the little voice in my head I like to call “doubt.” You might not notice him if you meet me. He’s really good at hiding, and he usually speaks in a small whisper, so it’d be hard for you to hear him, unless you were standing really close to me. Even then, you might only hear me whispering back to him,
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and maybe cursing. Do you have a small voice in your head, too? Does he whisper nasty things like “What if they’re falling behind?” or “You’re not very good at math, how do you expect to teach them?” Or “What if you forget something important?”, “You’re not qualified,” etc. ... Well, his name is doubt, and he’s a real pain in the you know what. It doesn’t help when you have other real live people around you who are saying the same things he is saying inside your head. Maybe your mother-in-law or your best friend whose kids are in school, people who might mean well but are really just expressing their own fears and