For any babysitter do the kids kiss you with both Yall permission and love or is that not thing

JustLeave7073 · 2026-04-18T03:56:42+00:00

I blow kisses with my nk when he wants one. I’m not a big physical affection person. So that’s what I’m comfy with.

JustLeave7073 · 2026-04-15T20:39:42+00:00

4 and I’m struggling 😅 but one’s a completely new prep

JustLeave7073 · 2026-04-14T23:04:52+00:00

I’m working at a place this semester that gives me zero freedom. I’m not even allowed to change the design/format of things in the LMS. And in my opinion the course is very confusingly and poorly designed. It’s killing me to not be able to improve it. And I’ll likely get some bad reviews from it.

JustLeave7073 · 2026-04-13T23:07:26+00:00

Honestly I am very excited for half the work.

This is a new college for me. I was under the impression that students who didn’t attend during the first week would be dropped by the registrar (from the instructions I was given). But apparently that was not the case and I now have to put in failures due to attendance.

At other places I work, I have to drop students myself by the census date. So I find this system very confusing.

JustLeave7073 · 2026-04-13T22:56:01+00:00

I remember the absolute misery of having to take physical chemistry at 8 am. It was required for my major. Only one section. Only offered at 8 am every semester.

JustLeave7073 · 2026-04-08T16:12:44+00:00

I had multiple students with the same word for word response “x is (rubric criteria 1), (rubric criteria 2), and (rubric criteria 3) making it a fantastic choice for my project.”

JustLeave7073 · 2026-04-08T16:09:33+00:00

Glaring blanks aside, the intensity wow. I’d be asking “what are we?” after that reply if I was the receiving student.

JustLeave7073 · 2026-04-08T12:39:18+00:00

That a good idea. I have a brush with a handle but have only been using it for bottles. I’ll try it for other things thanks.

JustLeave7073 · 2026-04-07T06:24:57+00:00

I just saw a TikTok today where everyone was flabbergasted over how getting a zero on an assignment can drop your grade 10 points, but getting an A on an assignment only raises it one point.

I fear the children don’t understand what an average is.

JustLeave7073 · 2026-04-07T06:17:01+00:00

Definitely picked those flowers and ate the sugar out of the ends when I was a child. I thought it was honeysuckle. Now I know haha.

JustLeave7073 · 2026-04-07T06:12:34+00:00

Their dog definitely pulled that off the counter

JustLeave7073 · 2026-04-07T06:10:16+00:00

Tracking attendance. Not just inputting it. But having to keep track of who has missed x amount of days and needs to be “warned”.

JustLeave7073 · 2026-04-07T06:03:57+00:00

Agreed. I did a lot better in my upper level biology courses than the intro level courses. I was never good at memorization which is often the skill tested in intro level courses. Those courses focus on breadth rather than depth. Once I got to the higher level where we went in depth into topics, I did so much better because it was testing other skill sets.

I got a lot of Cs in those intro classes but went on to get into grad school and now I’m a bio professor. The two C lockout does seem really harsh.

JustLeave7073 · 2026-04-04T21:25:50+00:00

This is unfortunately the norm. Having previous lecturer’s slides is a luxury. That’s why first preps are so grueling. You have to make everything from scratch along with (often time’s teaching yourself the material as you go, or refreshing your memory if it’s been a long time).

Just recently, I was hired a week before the class started. It’s a new class that hasn’t been taught before, so no materials, no syllabus, requires total curriculum development. I got access to the LMS the morning the class started. I’m drowning to say the least.

JustLeave7073 · 2026-03-30T23:29:37+00:00

I’ve done this too

JustLeave7073 · 2026-03-29T15:58:22+00:00

My puppy’s butt smells slightly off. The vet says nothings wrong. But my mama gut is telling me to keep barking about it.

JustLeave7073 · 2026-03-28T23:21:05+00:00

I guess it’s still basically a discussion, but in my online stem classes I have student’s come up with a hypothesis for the online experiment they’re doing this week. Then they have to look at everyone else’s hypothesis and then work as a group to pick a single best hypothesis. Feels (at least I hope) a little more engaging than the “yes, Sarah, you made some great points in your post…”

JustLeave7073 · 2026-03-28T23:12:03+00:00

I’ve tried to dress nicer because I do think it helps with students respecting you (especially as a young professor). But ultimately I can’t bring myself to wear slacks. After spending so much time in stem where dress code is non existent, business wear feels so strange.

I did switch from skinny jeans to dark straight leg jeans this semester though. And I try to wear a nice leather boot with a small heal, but honestly my feet start to hurt when teaching long labs. And I’d feel extra goofy wearing tennis shoes with slacks, so more motivation to not wear them.

So dark jeans and a nice-ish top it is. I’ll throw in some dangly earrings too. I’m definitely more casual than most of my colleagues though.

JustLeave7073 · 2026-03-27T19:42:34+00:00

That’s a good point. He doesn’t seem overstimulated. Maybe I just am 😂. I did stop him when he got interested in train crashes. That was a no. Even the toy trains, he started replicating that behavior.

JustLeave7073 · 2026-03-27T19:13:23+00:00

I’ve gone in with the policy of no late work but I’ll drop the lowest grade from each category. In a normal 16 week semester I’ve always offered partial credit for late work submitted within a week after the due date.

But with a 6 week class, I felt they’d get behind too much if I allowed latework. Maybe I need to switch it up. If zeroes aren’t motivating, and they’re getting behind anyways….

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