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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If you have 3 large bookshelves at home full of kid’s books
You have a cedar chest full of educational catalogs to use at the end of the year
you get more educational catalogs in the mail than bills
You might be a teacher if…
**you cringe when you see spelling errors on signs, ads, etc.
***you have to stop yourself from correcting other people’s children in the grocery store
***you get excited when you find a great sale on children’s books
- you create little songs to help reinforce basic concepts for your students and your husband knows the tune and all of the words!
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!?