As a fellow teacher, I know the struggles we go through day in and day out. Nothing can prepare you for the days of constant talking, trouble makers, organization becoming quickly disorganized, and that one student that always seems to show up, even through a winter storm... Coffee is our lifeline, sick days are treasured, and even that blessed fifteen minute break away from the craziness somehow makes the days a little more bearable!
1. When you know there are a hundred things to do the next day, yet you can only think about it right before going to bed.
2. When your supervisor comes in to observe you, and that one kid just starts throwing toys everywhere.
3. When you know it'll be a quiet day when those ones are away...
4. When you can smell the poop, and have to sniff like a detective to find out who did it, even though you just changed diapers.
5. When those nagging ones are always coming up to you to tell you what's happened to them, that's totally insignificant to virtually anything else in the room.
6. When that one child who always makes your days stressful, but no one else seems to see how devious they really are.
7. When your student's favourite thing is the one thing you can never get rid of no matter how much you clean the room...
8. When you go in filled with coffee, and you're already tired fifteen minutes into your shift starting.
9. Waiting for the end of the week to come, so you can finally take that short weekend to yourself to sleep and not adult.
10. But at the same time, constantly thinking the week is closer to an end, when it's only just begun...
11. You always mean well to get your plan finished for the week, yet somehow always end up pushing it to the next day. #Wingingit
12. When people think that you don't actually do anything with your students, and have never actually spent time in a school or day care to see what children really do all day....tip, don't give them cupcakes!
13. When you're hoping you don't have to go in to see the same kids on top of a winter storm. Or even just hoping that if you do go in, that not many kids will show up.
14. When you're only in your early, mid, or late twenties or thirties and you look and feel like an eighty year old until vacation time...
15. When you just cleaned up the room, and they throw all the toys on the floor again...and it's almost always the same kids that never sleep at nap time, never get sick, and always steals the indoor shoes.
We teachers can probably relate to at least five of these memes. Whether it's the students, the cleaning, the smells, and definitely the singing, our days are long, and weekends are short, but probably wouldn't change our profession for the world...as long as we have our coffee first!
