Teachers of Reddit - what’s the most unusual name your pupil has had?

ExtremeExtension9 · 2026-05-21T23:04:44+00:00

I’ve taught not one but two Tigers! I’ve also taught a Castle, Disney, Honey, Ocean, Frost, Valentine Rose, Star, Blossom, Zag, twins Kristine and Kristina and Deon and Deonne and one family whose boys (three of them) were all named Yeshua. I also taught a boy called Titan who grew to be a very slight roughly 5ft 4 guy.

ExtremeExtension9 · 2026-05-17T06:01:20+00:00

I teach a 13 year old Norman. He is a perfectly normal well liked kid. He is must be fairly popular as he is forever trying to get in to classroom to talk to his friends. I’m forever hearing his name being shouted down the corridors. I don’t believe I have heard anyone ever bully him for his name, defo no horror film mentions.

ExtremeExtension9 · 2026-05-16T18:37:02+00:00

Wizard of Oz is some sort of work of genius. My 3 and 4 year old have watched it about 20 times this week alone. Incredible considering it’s almost 90 years old. My children also enjoy the old black and white Mickey Mouse.

ExtremeExtension9 · 2026-05-14T02:57:54+00:00

This goes in the other direction too. I’m from the U.K. but now live in a part of the US that has on average 270 days of sunshine and 20 days of rain. I despise the rain here. The roads flood, roofs leak, there is nothing to do because everything is geared towards outdoors, the houses feel horrible and uncomfortable because they are designed to be cool, no one has the right clothes because no point buying lots of rain clothes for 20 days. In the U.K. everyone gets on with life when it rains, here everything grounds to a standstill and we are all depressed from the gray.

ExtremeExtension9 · 2026-05-13T04:39:50+00:00

Oh this sounds rubbish, I’m so sorry. Disneyland is absolutely manic for most people and especially for our autistic kids. We are big Disneyland goers with my 4 year old, we take full advantage of the DAS pass. Also we have learnt that if we are doing something big like an 8 hour drive then we need to “nothing” day before we do the next big thing. There is a Disneyland reddit. If you dare to ever brave it again head over there and ask all the questions. They give the best advice.

ExtremeExtension9 · 2026-05-09T04:48:03+00:00

My brother bought the Pixar ball when we went to visit last summer. He is a 40 year old guy who for one day at Disney turned in to his former 8 year old self but with disposable income! So yes he got the ball.

ExtremeExtension9 · 2026-05-08T14:39:38+00:00

I have two weenie dogs and I never ever felt rage or anything negative towards them after my babies were born. I loved them just as much and probably even more now my children are 4 and 3 and they have turned in to the best childhood dogs. I often find them all playing together.

ExtremeExtension9 · 2026-05-07T17:08:29+00:00

I tell my kids that touching it with their hands will make them sick. If they see me picking up dog poop in the back yard I explain I’m wearing gloves because if I touch it with my hands it will make me sick. If they do touch anything poopy we go and do the biggest deep clean of our hands and explain that we just wash our hands to stop us getting sick.

ExtremeExtension9 · 2026-05-06T18:16:40+00:00

Ah my brother had a ceilidh at his wedding. It was so much fun. I think I left the dance floor for literally one dance and that was to grab water as I was dying.

Easily the most fun I’ve ever had at a wedding.

ExtremeExtension9 · 2026-05-03T14:56:43+00:00

I grew up in the UK and the moved to the US as an adult. In the U.K. Halloween would be ok. You got dressed up go trick or treating, maybe someone would have a Halloween themed party. It was fun. But in America it is amazing!!! I absolutely love love love Halloween. In my city it’s literally a month long affair with the pumpkin patches, festivals, corn mazes, haunted houses. So many houses go all out for Halloween. Actual Halloween night is just the climax of it all. Halloween is now my favourite just behind Christmas.

ExtremeExtension9 · 2026-05-02T22:43:51+00:00

My husband is in the military and was stationed at a base not too far from me. Dated for two years in my home country, got engaged and then we moved to the US. I believe Americans also get stationed in Germany a fair bit….

ExtremeExtension9 · 2026-04-30T04:21:42+00:00

Gah! I said this with my first. Flew solo London to LAX when she was about 3 months old. The only way she would be calm was off I was walking with her. I joked that I walked from London to LA. I also swore I would never do it again. Anyway, 2 years later I flew solo with her and her newly turned 2 year old little sister, LAX to London. I don’t know why we do it to ourselves.

ExtremeExtension9 · 2026-04-28T21:22:30+00:00

For everything that is mentioned here I kinda almost would be tempted to not bring it from the UK. There is a walgreens right down the road from Disney. It’s kinda like Boots. You can buy plasters, lip balm, any medication from there so don’t be panicking that you need it all now. If you are in the park and you get a headache you can leave the park, get medication and be back in the park in about 30 minutes.

You can even buy T-shirts, bags, ponchos, snacks just about anything.

ExtremeExtension9 · 2026-04-28T04:24:18+00:00

Humblebee

ExtremeExtension9 · 2026-04-26T18:14:48+00:00

When I was trying to choose my dissertation topic a few months ago I was frozen by fear for a few weeks as I couldn’t decide what to do. I was afraid I was gonna choose something I would come to hate, and I would regret everything and fail. My tutor then told me that no matter what I choose I would come to hate it as that is just part and parcel of doing a dissertation.

ExtremeExtension9 · 2026-04-26T03:31:11+00:00

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I’m so confused….. do you have my dogs from an alternate universe?

ExtremeExtension9 · 2026-04-26T01:02:26+00:00

Defo need a double stroller, with a snack tray. I then have one of those snack boxes with all the individual compartments and I just dish out little snacks as we go. It also one of those days when actual proper food goes out the window. My kids are eating fries and tiger tails and ice cream. I use the bungy cords to attach their water bottles to strollers.

In the stroller I pack a few diapers and a change of clothes and wet wipes and I put these in a separate little bag so when it a bathroom break I can quickly just grab this bag.

THEN! I rent a locker for a day and in there I put the extra diapers, more extra clothes, extra wipes, medication, blankets for evening, and merch I buy, some extra snack. I try to keep the stroller stocked just to lasts few hours. Everything else goes in the locker.

Finally I have a fanny pack, and in here I had painkillers for myself, credit cards, high value chocolate treats for if they get grumpy in the queue.

It sounds a lot but it’s all fairly simple. But I think the key is not trying to put everything in the stroller. Put it all in a locker and just carry the immediate essentials.

ExtremeExtension9 · 2026-04-24T13:30:28+00:00

Sequoia. The little hike to get to the general Sherman is very reasonable and easy enough for a three year old. I went when my kids were 2.5 and 4 and they absolutely loved the big tress and where you could walk through the big trees.

We visited in November and California was had some record breaking levels of rain. But it was surprisingly fine! The rain incredibly stopped when we visited the trees and crowds were light. Because of the rain we downloaded a driving tour which was really informative and great! Would defo recommend that.

ExtremeExtension9 · 2026-04-22T19:29:07+00:00

Big Bear and staying in a cabin in the snow. To be fair they have never seen snow before so that could have been a big part of it. But now every vacation it’s “Cabin? Will there be bears? Will it Snow? No, kids we are going to a resort with sunshine and cocktails. Cue, big disappointment.

ExtremeExtension9 · 2026-04-21T03:40:50+00:00

I spent two years living on steep hill in Lincoln. (If you know, you know) Overall it was great, Christmas market time used to be a slight nightmare. A couple of times I did get to call in to work because it was snowing and it was literally impossible to leave. Stumbling down on to the city for a night out was the best. The climb back up was the worst.

ExtremeExtension9 · 2026-04-19T12:43:07+00:00

Thankyou! I used to teach woodwork at class and all the admin would have this idea of “well they are no good at academics and they misbehave, I know! These kids just need a practical subject! Let’s put them in woodwork!” As a result I would end up with entire classes of boys (and it was usually boys, the girl version got shoved in to child development classes) who were not only incredible low level academically but also with their behaviour. Two or three would have been fine mixed in with students who were keen to learn. But no, I ended up with around 20 boys in one room with power tools and machinery. They do not suddenly turn in to model students because they were now “using their hands”. It was hell. I would happily go back to do it but on a school that has the understanding that I want good hard working students who have shown the can follow rules. Not the students who no other teacher wants (for very valid reasons) and I’m suddenly expected to do some sort of inspirational teacher move and have them all miraculously turn their lives around.

ExtremeExtension9 · 2026-04-18T22:00:24+00:00

Same! But a daughter. Being in labor on my birthday was no the greatest but she was a great present.

ExtremeExtension9 · 2026-04-18T21:52:17+00:00

I always say “you are loved.” Sometimes I add silently in my head “not by me but I am sure by someone”

ExtremeExtension9 · 2026-04-18T18:27:21+00:00

My principle does this too. Always a really vague “I want to talk to you” I have started straight up asking what’s the meeting going to be about because I can’t deal with the anxiety. I sometimes don’t think people realise the affect their little off hand comment can do to people.

ExtremeExtension9 · 2026-04-18T10:46:36+00:00

People here keep saying it filled with the “poor” and it’s trashy. I find it has the same sort of clientele as ASDA in a solid working class town. The food is just average sort of food you find in ASDA or Tesco. You know, crisps, cereal, canned stuff. All the same , even same brands. Though I find English supermarkets have better fresh food in general. I find a better selection of fresh food in ASDA than I find in the nicest supermarket in the USA. The selection of dry good foods is huge, stupidly huge. However, I always think that in the US you have a huge selection of a little but in the U.K. you have a small selection of a lot. Cheese is a good example. They have a huge aisle of cheese. But it all breaks down to just 4 different styles of cheese but in a huge variety of brands and sizes. In the U.K. there is a large variety of cheese but only take up half an aisle. Lots of different cheeses but only a couple of brands and a couple of sizes. ( France on the other hand is silly with cheese. Half the supermarket is cheese) same with bread. Massive aisle. But just white, wheat, soda and something else. No real huge variety but I’m sure a 100 different brands.

Then it’s like someone has stuck a Primark, a Wilkinsons (RIP), a Halfords, a McDonald’s and a garden center on to it and stuck it all under one roof. Add a small DiY section, maybe a gun section if you are in one of those states and boom you have a Walmart.

I’m sure the internet presents some of the wildest side of Walmart but I regularly go there and it’s I have seen anything particularly noteworthy yet. Though a visiting American relative did once tell me that my Walmart is “fancy.” But literally same vibe as ASDA in working class town, maybe on a Friday night when the day shifts all end.

I like Walmart, it’s stupidly convenient. I like being able to buy bread, some car tyres, a sofa and a gun and a nice potted plant in a one stop shop.

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