I realize that I am supposed to be extra nice and patient during the holiday season but one thing that drives me crazy is when parents let their little kids try and do something over and over. And when the kids fails at it, do they do it, no, they continue to let the kid fail at it. EDIT* Apparently I have upset a few people not let their kids fail. Of course let your kids fail. That's how they learn BUT below are examples of when you probably shouldn't be testing that out. I have two instances this week alone. Number one while at Target the mom was having her little girl put in her pin number to the machine. Number one, not a smart idea to be shouting out repeatedly your pin number to your debt card and number two after the 5th failed attempt it’s best to move on. The line continued to form behind. After I kid you not the 11th time of messing it up the Target check out girl just got frustrated and ran the card as a credit card. To which the woman was highly upset and asked to … [Read more...]
Occupational hazzards…
Try as college might, there is no real prep for teaching, until well, you teach. I think this is true for most jobs, but really you just can’t plan for things. Who knew I would ever have to deal with a kid stabbing another kid with a protractor and peeing on him (no, this didn’t happen on my watch, I just had to be the one to deal with it). Or how about turning on the lights after watching a movie only to find some 8th grade boys mouth on some 8th grade girl’s breast? Again, not on my watch…but that became legend at our school and the reason why we always watched movies with at least one light on….and I got to choose who you sat next to. Or how about a parent/teacher conference where the mom is drunk and had no teeth, wearing purple spandex, 4-inch red heels, and a black lace see-through bra? I know the bra is see- through because that was the only top she was wearing. Oddly enough, the kid was not doing well in school. But to her credit, she did show up to every … [Read more...]
Won’t you be my neighbor…
Often I read other bloggers after losing someone in their life talk about the fact that their blog was like therapy. And though I did not lose someone in the form of death, it is still a loss. And as you can see through my major posting, the blog is in a sense like therapy to me. Though I have real life friends who are amazingly supportive, the support of my readers is also important to me. I guess that is why in a way I have been working on trying to build more of a community of sorts on this blog. I will never be a juggernaut (nor do I have the desire to be). I like being that off-beat blog that people come by and say hi, like I’m Norm from Cheers. :) Which is why I have been pushing the Facebook Page as of late. It’s purely therapeutic for me. I love interacting with my readers on a more personal level. I love discussing silly things like me getting excited about 3 boxes of unsalted butter for $5 (because really, who wouldn’t!!!) or asking people what great food finds they … [Read more...]
