This is where the random shtuff goes

- when kids seek me out for help outside of the academic sense. Girl needs feminine supplies? I got you girl. Someone is in tears and needs a hug? Come here sweetheart. Need life advice? I will do my best. Knowing kids trust me to help them makes me feel like I'm at least an okay teacher.

- remembering that I am licensed to teach in two states. If my current school district pisses me off enough, I'm gone. They can threaten me for breaking contract and try to take my teaching license, but idgaf. They can have it. I have another one that they can't touch 😜

- In eight years of teaching, I've only ever had one actual parent complaint. Parents be cray cray, and this one was the queen of crazy. If you have to scream at a 2nd year teacher to feel like you're superior as a human and a parent, then you have issues you need to deal with, babe. I ended up 'winning' the conflict with this parent, soooo 💅🏻

Could y'all consider NOT screaming at your kids before sending them to school? Tell me why the SWEETEST boy came to me this morning before school SOBBING because his mother screamed at him over opening a bottle of syrup for his pancakes??? When he calmed down, he told me she had never yelled at him like that before. That she was so mean to him but he didn't understand what he did wrong.

Could there be more to the story? Absolutely. Parents are human. Children are human. Everyone has a bad day. But how dare you put your child in such a state of distress and send them off to school.

Be nicer to your kids!