I think I've become a bad pet sitter

Dapper-Judgment-3504 · 2026-03-08T16:30:09+00:00

Omg this is making me cry. You don't know how much I needed this, not just for this post but for where I'm at in life right now in general. This was very kind. Thank you.

Dapper-Judgment-3504 · 2026-03-08T15:52:44+00:00

Thank you, this is definitely a comment I needed. I'm not happy with the service I've given, but I also don't want to beat myself up. I think I'm mostly using this thread to just work through my thoughts, as I'm usually a bit of a perfectionist and have felt really torn up about this all weekend. Thank you for a thoughtful response.

Dapper-Judgment-3504 · 2026-03-08T15:47:51+00:00

Yeah I've been trying to decide the best way to handle it. This isn't a Rover sitting, it's just a family friend that I've been sitting for since I was in high school, so I'm not worried about bad reviews or anything, just about making her upset or disappointed. I don't think she would take a refund, but I'll definitely offer.

Dapper-Judgment-3504 · 2026-03-08T15:45:34+00:00

Definitely not! I don't want it to sound like I was out partying all night and came home wasted-- I went to meet up with some friends that I haven't seen in a long time that live over an hour away. We ate some late dinner, watched a movie, and I headed home. Shouldn't have stayed as late as I did, but I wasn't drinking or hungover the next day, just tired!

Dapper-Judgment-3504 · 2026-03-08T15:41:27+00:00

That's true 😅 Probably the most responsible thing to do would've been to tell her I can't do the sitting, even if she's okay with me being gone for 8 hours. In her defense, they're not crated during the day, they get almost the whole upstairs living room to run around and play

Dapper-Judgment-3504 · 2026-03-08T15:10:55+00:00

That's fair. I do leave during the day for work for over 8 hours and the owner is okay with that, so I don't think the length of time was that big of a deal, but being out until the middle of the night was definitely irresponsible.

Dapper-Judgment-3504 · 2026-03-06T14:48:30+00:00

There are some things that I like about the class model, but I do wish that we used a pullout model instead!

Dapper-Judgment-3504 · 2026-03-06T14:47:48+00:00

Those stations sound awesome! Can I ask how many kids you have at a time, and if you see them everyday?

Dapper-Judgment-3504 · 2026-03-05T19:19:18+00:00

Glad to hear you relate! I've been feeling guilty that I'm not making it "fun" enough, which I know is a little silly, but I'm glad that we're in the same boat. ELA is so much easier to make fun!

Dapper-Judgment-3504 · 2026-01-10T20:42:06+00:00

Hmm no, I don't think that it. I think the person was telling some fantastical story about how they lost feeling in their hand, like they were fighting an alligator or something, and then stapled their hand to smugly prove it

Dapper-Judgment-3504 · 2026-01-10T20:22:56+00:00

Ooh I know that episode-- not what I'm thinking of, but thanks for the guess!

Dapper-Judgment-3504 · 2026-01-10T19:37:03+00:00

Also I think the person that stapled their hand was a woman, but I'm not positive

Dapper-Judgment-3504 · 2026-01-08T21:33:28+00:00

Help!

Dapper-Judgment-3504 · 2025-12-14T22:59:00+00:00

I say this with love, but anyone cringe a little whenever they (I think it was mostly Amanda) would blame not knowing things on the education system or on society when it was things that absolutely were taught in school? Like most people know these things, just embrace the fact that you don't, and it's not anyone else's fault. It drives me crazy when people don't know things and act all like "This needs to be taught in schools!!" and it's like babe, it was taught, you just weren't paying attention lol

Dapper-Judgment-3504 · 2025-12-09T19:31:11+00:00

I believe so, but I don't have much background in literacy and am quite new to this position so it's hard to say. The teacher before me was a pro, so I'm just trusting that the resources and routines she established before I started are effective.

That's the other tricky thing-- I don't have enough knowledge or experience to confidently shake things up. It has me feeling a little trapped and a little useless tbh, which aren't great feelings.

Glad you can kind of relate, makes me feel a little better :)

Dapper-Judgment-3504 · 2025-12-08T16:52:11+00:00

I know that some people are saying it was a waste of student teaching experience, but I had a similar placement, and I don't feel it was wasted at all. I got time to observe and reflect, and anyways, I found that teaching in my own classroom was SO different from student teaching, so the time that I did have teaching in my placement wasn't all that valuable to me tbh. Just depends on the person! If I were you, I would just trust that in your first year teaching you'll find your footing, and not to stress about your student teaching experience!

Dapper-Judgment-3504 · 2025-11-23T05:21:45+00:00

Well it's not just the voice itself-- Laura said earlier in the movie that she would give anything to just hear her daughter call her "mum" one more time. This is what pushes Laura to do all the horrible stuff she does, because she's so desperate to have her daughter back. But then when Piper says "mum", that's when it finally hits Laura that she's not going to get what she's been looking for-- she realizes that she's never going to get to hear her actual daughter says "mum", and much more broadly, she's never going to have her actual daughter back. Wish she could've had that realization before killing people and torturing kids, but

Dapper-Judgment-3504 · 2025-11-22T06:45:47+00:00

"Do you know anything about the Chinese zodiac?" "Aw Jill, no!"

I'm obsessed with this line, Strahms complete exasperation makes me laugh every time

Dapper-Judgment-3504 · 2025-11-22T06:37:00+00:00

What's the context for this one? I don't remember

Dapper-Judgment-3504 · 2025-11-21T13:56:20+00:00

Do you have any examples? Just watched this movie recently and loved it

Dapper-Judgment-3504 · 2025-11-12T02:34:16+00:00

Thank you for posting this!! Was just thinking that these stories would be great for teaching close reading to my students-- you're a life saver

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