As the proud daughter of a wonderful teacher, my whole life has been based on what I like to call school values. My mom has taught me very many wonderful skills, and I will be forever grateful for everything I’ve learned from her. Here are some things that let you know if you were raised by a school teacher.
1. Perfection
I can tell you 100 percent that all those nights of helping cut out lamination a centimeter from the edge so it doesn’t peel makes you a perfectionist in everything you do.
2. Teacher’s Pet
If you are the child of a teacher, you were raised thinking that teachers are the best people you encounter, and you need to be their favorite student in order to truly succeed in class. You were constantly volunteering to help and sucking up to the teacher because it was all you knew.
3. Reading
I sometimes think that I came out of the womb reading a chapter book. While that is exaggerated, by the time I was 5, I was able to read the "American Girl" and "Junie B. Jones" chapter books while no one else my age could. I’ve been grounded once in my life and that’s because I walked myself to the library when I was 5 because I needed another book (red flag: teacher's child).
4. Questions
When my mom went into parent-teacher conferences, the one complaint she got about my brother and I was that we asked the most questions in the class. Well, because we were raised to be perfectionists (see No. 1 above) we need to ask questions to get all the clarifications.
5. Tattle-Tale
I was also raised to do the right things all the time. I never had a rebellious phase because I was too worried about the consequences. My angelic second-grade teacher (also one of my mom’s best friends) jokes that I could have run her classroom because I always did the right thing, no matter what the other kids thought.
6. Obsessed with School Supplies
If one of your parents is a teacher, you are lying if you say you never got excited when you got to go back-to-school shopping. Sure, it was awful summer was over, but you got new pens, pencils, and markers, and isn’t that the best thing of life?
7. The Highest Standard
My mom literally knew all of mine and my brother’s teachers. There was nothing we could get away with without her finding out. We were held to an extremely high standard because we were raised a different way.
8. The Teacher Voice
Like I said earlier, I have only been grounded once, but I know I did something wrong when my mom’s teacher voice came out. It was stern and strong and would hit me like a rock, but guess what? I never made the same mistake twice because I was terrified of the teacher voice.
9. Kids Around All the Time
My mom always says the worst years of life were when she was teaching sixth grade, and I was in sixth grade. She never got a break. All day, she would spend teaching sixth graders and then she would come home and live with a sixth grader. While I know that she felt bad when she told me she needed a break from the 12-year-old drama, but now I know that she really just needed time to hear her own thoughts.
10. Summers Together
Summers were always the best because every day I got to spend more time with my mom. We did fun activities, and I never had a summer babysitter because she was able to be there will us to help us swim and learn how to ride bikes (even though it took me far too long to learn), she was always there. She was always there to go on vacation with us and those are the times I will always remember.
