Our children have been able to arrange their schedules to be home for Christmas. My son and I were discussing some of the lines I use at school. For instance, when the kids tell me I am crazy, I tell them it is required for the job. “In fact,” I tell them, “they have a box on the application which asks, ‘Are you crazy?’ If you don’t check it ‘yes’ they won’t hire you.”
I also tell them that I have hope for them because when my son was their age I tried to take him back to the hospital for a refund and he turned out fine.
To that my son commented, “It might have had to do with parenting skills.”
How can you argue with that. But not being willing to let him have the last word I said, “Yeah, we had bad cop, good cop.”
Not being willing to let me get that last word (after all, I trained him) he observed, “Actually it was bad cop, worse cop.”
I can live with that.
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ReplyDeleteGrace and peace.
Same requirement needed, doesn't matter where you teach. If you're not crazy when you start, you soon become crazy. My colleague, the Italian leprechaun, tells the children that his real name is A B Normal.
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ReplyDeleteWhich is worse in our modern society, average or normal? I know I am not the first and hope I am not the second.
Grace and peace.