hey Teacher!!

I have a post percolating about teaching vs learning... a subject that's near and dear.

I intended to write it tonight, but I have a man who needs attention and snuggling and all that, and it's bedtime.

So Tami, this is a place marker.
It may end up being my post for the day as I need to run errands and make some phone calls, Tuesday is my day off this week, and there's no time like the present and get all my ducks in a row and time's a wastin'... Funny, spell check didn't like some of that. Spell check isn't all that helpful to me most of the time.

One of my kids keeps calling me 'teacher'. A thing I really don't like.
The kids call me by my first name, which is my preference. I don't like 'Teacher Susan' or being called "Mrs." either. I have repeatedly asked her to either call me Susan or my summer camp name, which is Hippie... and 20 seconds later she comes up and slaps my arm to get my attention and calls me teacher.

So today, after I'd asked her about five times not to do that, I started calling her 'kid'.

She didn't like it. It sort of made her mad. I don't want to frustrate or upset a small person, but I don't know what else to do to get the point across to her.

So she was 'kid' about eight or nine times by the time I went home this evening.

We'll see what happens Wednesday.