Perhaps it's because you teach honors classes and deal with motivated kids. I admire career teachers of adolescents and under. I don;t know how you do it. I have had many friends and girlfriends with young kids and some young cousins that I can successfully interact with, get along, and have fun. I enjoy teaching a kid a skill that he doesn't know and they like it too. I thought I had the whole kid rapport thing down. Then last summer I gave a demonstration to a pack of Cub Scouts. I learned the hard way that when together in a group, 8-year-olds have an attention span of about seven seconds. Serenity Now . . .
Did you make that one up or hear a coach say it? If its yours you should trademark it. Great catchphrase. Its cooler than the other side of the pillow. Booya!
Lol. I was a softball dugout mom for 7 years, loved it. They asked me to do the same for my son's little league team. Not a freakin chance in hell. They are devils, those little 8 year old boys in a group. Completely mine. I did hear Coach Pat Ruehl make a great comment once to an olineman that had something to do with cheerios and a fat ass but that's about it.
I think I could deal with the kids if they really want to play but I couldn't put up with their overbearing parents.
That may be the greatest thing I've ever read on here. Surely sounded like Lombardi or socrates Football has never turned me on til that moment.
Yea, sha. "Oregon wide receiver Darren Carrington and running back Ayele Forde will not play in Monday's national championship game after positive NCAA drug tests, coach Mark Helfrich said Saturday. Carrington did not travel with the team to Dallas after testing positive for marijuana. The results of Forde's test were not immediately clear."
I teach half honors and half "on level," of which many are not on grade level at all. I can speak differently with the honors students; it's like talking to other adults. The on level kids aren't as bright, of course. But again, I rarely yell at all. My nickname, in fact, is Mama O. I'm very comfortable with middle school kids and teens. With smaller kids, not so much. Now that my older daughter is a teen, having conversations and hosting a big group of her friends is totally in my wheel house.
