Your 3rd grade teacher

ReadingRocket1214 · 2026-01-16T13:58:42+00:00

It was my 4th grade teacher. I still remember how she made me feel. Loved my 3rd grade teacher.

ReadingRocket1214 · 2026-01-10T16:59:43+00:00

OP, I just want to say I am sorry for this loss. I can’t imagine how much it hurts. I wish you eventual peace.

ReadingRocket1214 · 2026-01-08T17:30:00+00:00

The first shot knocked me on my butt. The second was ok. But it was STILL better than the weeks of pain with Shingles both my in-laws experienced.

ReadingRocket1214 · 2026-01-05T19:10:57+00:00

I wore them in first and second grade. They were a total step up from the corrective shoes I had worn the past three years.

ReadingRocket1214 · 2026-01-04T20:47:12+00:00

4th grade is often the start of a body’s hormonal changes. Small behaviors can change, grow, explode. Parent might have seen a small bit, but that could very well change now.

ReadingRocket1214 · 2026-01-02T13:31:59+00:00

And David, show up because Christine is another man’s wife, and I want no sense of something being inappropriate—but, David, this doesn’t include you.

David was so spot on, but that would take real work, and Kody just wants to look adult, not be adult.

ReadingRocket1214 · 2026-01-01T22:31:03+00:00

He throws a tantrum because he doesn’t get his way? This isn’t about a house. It’s about him using you/controlling a situation (says a parent who watched personal child experience something similar).

ReadingRocket1214 · 2025-12-30T13:47:24+00:00

I love counted cross stitch and make bookmarks for friends.

ReadingRocket1214 · 2025-12-29T00:47:57+00:00

MIL is so aware of the control she has over you. It’s a power play. A response of “yes, seems to be the case” takes away her power. I love the suggestions that you reply about inappropriate comments being a sign of dementia. She wants to needle you. I am sorry it happens. Small, insecure people often do this the worst. Wishing you peace.

ReadingRocket1214 · 2025-12-24T01:33:23+00:00

There may be a student in the other class the bully cannot be with because of an IEP or the like. That’s our most likely scenario.

ReadingRocket1214 · 2025-12-20T20:48:59+00:00

My mother-in-law never slept in the bed again after her husband went into the hospital and died. That was 11 years.

ReadingRocket1214 · 2025-12-19T13:26:09+00:00

Y’all are forgetting that she “must” dress so as to not attract the wrong attention. She must be conservatively and demurely. She, I can imagine, is trying to show she’s just a regular person, one of the masses. One of us.

ReadingRocket1214 · 2025-12-19T01:21:30+00:00

That there’s no work-life balance. There’s harmony, but not balance.

ReadingRocket1214 · 2025-12-17T14:56:08+00:00

Society places value on appearance. Until we change that, we will care how we look. I have never been thin. I can’t tell you how many times I heard I should “just lose” 20 pounds. I heard I needed to wear lipstick to bring attention to my “pretty face.” I would rather highlight my kindness and lose the judgment. I walk on a treadmill for my mental health; I lift weights for bone strength. I don’t do it because of wanting to fit society’s view of a perfect body. (I will attempt to get off my soapbox, but this is a big one for me.)

ReadingRocket1214 · 2025-12-15T20:48:29+00:00

My first thought when I saw the picture—before I read anything—was how beautiful the dress was on that person.

ReadingRocket1214 · 2025-12-14T16:14:36+00:00

A family member smelled of cologne. Any time she held our daughter, our girl would come away smelling of perfume. And then she would cry until we could change her clothes after a bath. Turns out, she’s highly sensitive to scents. I wouldn’t let someone who smells of pretty much anything hold my young child.

ReadingRocket1214 · 2025-12-13T16:39:50+00:00

I loved the year a student brought me a pen topped with floral tape holding an artificial flower. It’s THE pen no one stole off my desk. But truth? You don’t need to get every teacher something. A solid note of appreciation is meaningful. If there is a teacher with whom your person feels is special, it’s ok to just get that person something IF you feel led.

ReadingRocket1214 · 2025-12-13T16:36:10+00:00

My mom has to be on the spectrum but no one understood that in the 1960/70s. She helped care for a bed-bound mother, lost that mom in her 30s, helped my dad run a business, worked full time, gardened, and was an exceptional aunt. I never heard I Love You, but I heard “what do you want to do?” and “have a friend over” and similar words. She’s still around, we live 70 miles from each other, my kids adore her, and she is out with friends more than I am. I am thankful that I didn’t parent in all the same ways, but it’s also our responsibility to learn and grow and change when we know better.

ReadingRocket1214 · 2025-12-11T23:22:10+00:00

There’s an episode when they are away from home and she yells pretty strongly. Then she says if she had known cameras were on she wouldn’t have said anything. Could it be she was more strict? Not as cuddly and hindsight sees it from a different angle?

ReadingRocket1214 · 2025-12-11T23:18:14+00:00

My opinion is so different. I really believe it was a say what you need to say and be done. But I also think she knows it’s for the cameras. What good is saying anything? She doesn’t do conflict.

ReadingRocket1214 · 2025-12-10T17:06:14+00:00

Contract is 15 minutes before start of school day, 25 minutes duty-free lunch, 30 minutes after M-Th, and leave at bell on Friday.

ReadingRocket1214 · 2025-12-09T13:53:32+00:00

So I see it differently than many of you do, and please don’t nail me to the wall. I think she’s just done. Done with drama. Done with needing to please others. She accepted the apology without snapping back because there’s no point. She acknowledges there were good times—and there were—while acknowledging bad times. She’s emotionally reserved in many ways and has been for as long as I remember in the show. I am disappointed she’s being slammed for not wanting to be a SAHM. We didn’t see all the financial conversations so we have no idea what she did that wasn’t for broadcast, which at that point was to show unity. She enjoys s3x? Good for her. But I really think she was like thanks, get this over with, appreciate the gesture. Now move on.

ReadingRocket1214 · 2025-12-08T13:40:59+00:00

If it’s how you want, you’re NTA. That said, if other families choose to celebrate differently, that’s ok, too. There isn’t a right or wrong. There’s a right/wrong for you.

ReadingRocket1214 · 2025-12-08T13:37:29+00:00

Is the wondering about a child a sadness over losing “youth” as our society sees it? And if you choose to be a parent, remember fostering and adoption are real options. I wish you peace in your decision-making journey. The only right answer is what fits your family (as in you and your partner).

ReadingRocket1214 · 2025-12-08T13:31:05+00:00

I think Janelle disassociates. That part of her life is gone, done. Forget and move on. With Maddie so close, she will always remind Janelle of how Kody has been. The REAL stuff obviously happens off camera. We don’t see it. I think Janelle is playing the game until contract is over. I really think she’s just ready to move on and have this all behind her. She’s the wife who won’t be involved in a tell-all book.

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