I WANNA BE PART OF YOUR LIFE SO HARD
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- Опубликовано: 18 ноя 2024
- Lunchtime can be a lonely island sometimes. Especially in the hellfire known as middle school. We have officially moved on from playing checkers to playing chess in this parenting game. But don’t worry, we still make fun of each other and talk about Tom Hardy in a naughty way.
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Female comedy duo Kristin Hensley and Jen Smedley have been performing, teaching, and writing comedy internationally for a combined 40+ years. They have been moms for one quarter of that time and it shows. How do they cope? They laugh about all of the craziness that comes with being a mom and they want you to laugh about it too! From snot to stretchmarks to sleepless nights, Kristin and Jen know firsthand that parenting is a hard job and they invite you to join them in taking it all a little less seriously (even if for a few short minutes a day). After all, Jen currently has four days of dry shampoo in her hair and Kristin’s keys are still in her front door. They try, they fail, they support each other, and they mom as hard as they can.
Kristen you are so right!! It should be the adults at the school facilitating social skill groups and good for you for going in to say something! Hopefully you'll see some action.
You are 100% correct, Kristen! Social dynamics so important. One of our Catholic highs schools figured it out. I wish all the middle schools would do this. They had the older students lead several days of team building activities and the incoming freshman were put into "crew teams" with an older student as their "crew leader". It is amazing! But, the feeder schools really have not because it depends on how the parents and teachers at each grade level handle it. I taught at a K-8 Catholic school where my oldest went through K-5. She had friends and fit in K-4. But, her 5th grade teacher bullied her relentlessly (true horror stories - my kid was kind and an easy target) and the class followed suit and totally iced her out. It was a heart breaking year. She had one friend and by mid-year she decided to go the public magnet school route 6-12. She visited, loved it, applied, and got in. She made really good friends along the way and it was the very best decision we ever made. The culture of the class she was in at her private school was toxic and it was not worth sacrificing her social and emotional well being to stay there. Some of the other classes at that school were really kind and fun. It just depended on the kids in each group and the adults that surrounded them.
Oh, and Jen needs to watch House of Hammer...truly disturbing and she won't think he is cute anymore.
I promise us educators really try hard to help all students socially, especially at the middle school level. I don't know if it all falls on our shoulders though. I will tell you, many parents have trained their children to think that they're better than their peers and enable the snobbish behavior. I have brought students in and called them out on their aggressive or passive-aggressive mean behavior towards others. My own son confided in me that he's nervous about who he's going to sit with at lunch next year since his best buddy was a year older than him and has graduated. Even 17 year old seniors worry about lunch. Lunch is TOUGH. I gave him advice to look at the underclassmen that are sitting alone and welcome them like his older friend welcomed him and if someone asks to sit at his table to never say, "No." unless you feel that child has said something incredibly offensive at the table, there's no way to not sit among them for 25-30 minutes.
We also see our kids from the lends of a parent vs the view of another kid their age going through the same experiences .. they are also our kids so a level of bias on both sides (they are my angel baby and they can be a little shit what have they done)
I did summer school for a geometry class in high school. It was actually a pleasant experience. There were less than ten students in the group and they were all nice people, the teacher was super chill and helpful because it was such a small group, and I looked like a math genius when the year started. Also it gave me something to do over the summer, but it was low pressure. I never did it again, but it really wasn't as bad as it sounded.
Ok... mombox. Did that poor house cleaner us the toliet at least? How did it happen 7 times? Was she not allowed to use the bathroom? I'm so confused how she went through 7 pairs of pants with a perfectly good bathroom there?