You Might Be a Teacher If…
Posted by Hope Spencer on 16 Sep 2009 | Posted in: Inspiration and Motivation, Life After School, Meet the Mailbox®, Teachers and Teaching
If you’re a regular blog reader, you know how much I love teachers. Usually, when I meet someone new, I can tell within a few minutes whether the person is a teacher. Teachers are just special like nobody else I know. What can I say? Who else can appreciate a teacher’s job the way teachers do?
Hey, let’s take a step back today and look at the fun, humorous side of teaching. Let’s tell some sweet, positive stories that only teachers will understand. We know who we are and what we do! Let’s hear it for teachers!
To start, I’ll modify a prompt from a famous comedian: You might be a teacher if…
- You tell your husband to use his “inside voice.”
- Your Christmas tree is covered with handmade ornaments–that were made by other people’s children.
- You tell strangers to spit out their gum.
- When you’re in the mall and a child runs by you, you stop him and tell him to walk.
- You can’t remember the last time you read a book that didn’t have pictures in it.
- When you’re in a store, you ask people not to cut in line.
Get the idea? Let’s have fun and share a giggle!
Your admiring blog host,
Hope
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You know you’re a pre-school teacher when…
- Everyone pees before you leave the house.
- You check out garbage cans to see what can be
reused or recycled.
- You cut your husbad’s meat or sandwich into small
pieces
…if you LOVE laminating
When you read a story to a family member and you ask them to name the colors and animals in the pictures.
When you move to a new house and have more teaching boxes then clothes.
When you have a collection of kids movies at your house, and you do not have any kids.
When your family gets you gifts that have apples and the ABC’s on it.
When you ask for a mail box subscription for your birthday. And celebrate when your husband gets it for you.
When you turn your iPod on shuffle and most of the songs are kids songs.
When hanging on your fridge is pictures from your students.
When you shop at Goodwill for work clothes because you know that you will get plenty of paint on them.
when there are the same amount of children in your wedding party as people your own age.
When you have a snack person everyday for your college classes and it was arranged by the students (all early ed majors)
Your book shelf at your house has 2 shelves of kids books, 2 shelves of teaching books, and 1/3 of a shelf with books that have nothing to do with children.
You know you’re a teacher when you remind everyone to wash their hands.
You know you’re teacher when you ask your husband, “Would you like to have a snack? It is snack time!”
You know you’re a teacher when you tell your husband “You’re a bully and I don’t llike it”!
Tooo funnyyyyy…..i guess this is why he loves me soooo:)
You might be a teacher if…your own children raise their hand at home during a family conversation!
LOVE IT!
You might be a teacher if…
you use your pet name for your students (My Friends) for everybody else you meet including your own husband!
you cant leave any type of store (i.e. walmart, target and the dollar tree) without something for your classroom.
you smile and immediately love every child you see.
You might be a teacher if…
…you need the attention of your husband and you do the “clap,clap,clap,clap,clap” and wait for him to imitate
…you ask him to catch a bubble in his mouth
…ask him to push his “hush button” and HE does!
You must be a teacher if:
- you’re a thousand miles away from home vacationing in Europe… you’re shopping and suddenly you spot something that would be PERFECT for your classroom!! (You know you’re a teacher when your classroom becomes your second home!?
You don’t throw anything away because someday you might need it for a lesson or teach a different grade.
You see bad behavior out in public and you give them “the teacher look”.
You tell children who are running around in a store to “use your walking feet”.
You find yourself wanting to take out a red pen and correct mistakes in letters and memos that you receive.
You correct your child’s friends grammar when they say me and so and so.
You use proper punctuation, capitals, and full words when texting and emailing.
…You know the locations of all the teacher stores in a 50 mile radius to your house but forget where is the post office closest to your home.
…You have a list of rules hanging on your refridgerator that you review with guests to your home.
…You lavel everything in the cabinets with words and pictures so that it is easy for your husband to put the groceries away.
…Everywhere you go, people ask what is all over your fingers and you reply paint as if it is as normal as nailpolish.
-you eat so fast that you’re finished before others with you begin.
-you get enough napkins at the fast food restaurant for everyone.