Action plan:
- kill him with kindness
- get him a backpack
- know that it's not personal
- know that you're not alone. congratulations, you have been initiated.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Pep Talk
Something I love about my mentor teacher is that she knows just how to hand over a good pick-me-up. I did, in fact, directly request one at lunch today after revealing that yesterday a student told me, "F** you, B**!"
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Always know it isn't personal. There's a lot going on in their worlds. Even if they have a normal semi adjusted life, even THAT is a humongous deal, EVERYTHING is intense and huge to a teen (or preteen). (Remember our livejournals?)
ReplyDeleteI get told to f--- off at least once a week. But it's not personal, and when all else fails I pretend I'm either Mary Poppins or Denzel Washington in Remember the Titans, or sometimes Bill Cosby, and somehow that makes it all okay.