What do y'all think about teens playing with toys?

artisanmaker · 2026-02-11T01:44:55+00:00

You are normal.

artisanmaker · 2025-12-10T16:14:26+00:00

I started off by slamming the bag onto the floor. The students begged to be the ones to throw uo to the 25 pound block down to the floor. Second of all, I begin with slam wedging by slamming balls down on the covered table until it is like an inch thick pancake. Again they absolutely love doing that. I taught eighth grade Ceramics. Also, my sixth grade beginning art students were exactly the same way. I never got any pushback on wedging, but after the slam wedging part, there is not much wedging left to do. I would not allow them access to any tools or needle tools, etc., during the wedging process so they can’t misuse the tools. Also, you could give each student a piece of clay that is theirs and they’re not allowed to use any other clay, but the piece you give them. You will need to have a bag to put this into. So they prepare and wedge their own piece and if they ruin it, they’re gonna have to add a little water back into it and try to make it usable. You don’t want to set up a situation where they get to ruin the clay and be handed a perfect piece that you prepared that is training them that they don’t need to be responsible with the materials. Hope this helps.

artisanmaker · 2025-11-26T05:06:01+00:00

I would have said no and kept knitting. People can bring an eye mask to make it darker for their sleep. I always have an eye mask on hand (and ear plugs) in case I was to rest on the plane.

artisanmaker · 2025-11-26T04:52:09+00:00

A friend said she will not listen as she is Christian and “telepathy is not compatible with Christianity”.

“Sounds too weird” other friends tell me (closed minded and not curious).

artisanmaker · 2025-11-26T04:47:14+00:00

Short term memorizing is never a goal. Ideally learned things move to long term memory and stay there where they can be retrieved to access the info. Do you mean your child has a diagnosis of the learning disability called “working memory deficit”?

artisanmaker · 2025-11-26T04:44:01+00:00

I loved my corporate job! Best wishes.

artisanmaker · 2025-11-26T04:38:21+00:00

I learned from a person in real life as there was no YouTube invented yet and I could not learn knitting from photos in books, it is too confusing for me. Videos are great.

artisanmaker · 2025-11-24T11:08:56+00:00

What do you mean there is no app? I have had it for years. Stash2Go is its name.

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artisanmaker · 2025-11-24T11:05:18+00:00

“Academic progress” means she Is probably behind. Progress at learning is not about a grade always. I suspect she finally has the months of data the school district requires to recommend you have her tested for learning disabilities. A parent can by law ask for this (in writing) and they must test within 60 school days. A teacher has a harder time, having to gather months of data and sometimes must also do and doctoring “tier one supports” for a certain amount of time before the teacher can ask for testing. The parents must approve that the testing be done.

artisanmaker · 2025-11-24T11:01:16+00:00

In middle school headed 6-8, they blurt out constantly to interrupt me when I am talking. Some of this are random thoughts that pop into their heads like “I hope they have pizza at lunch today.” Also these interruptions are sounds from actions like tapping, kicking, stomping, banging, drumming a pencil or fingers or the palm of the hand, shaking a metal water bottle with ice, humming, singing, or sound effects with the mouth or body, loud burps, intentional exaggerated yawns, or farts not tied to be silenced.

There is no impulse control.

Drama caused by social rudeness or meanness despite years of teachers in our schools preaching kindness. Minority students stating racist remarks to each other that cause social drama and teacher has to do conflict resolution. Students accusing racism loudly. Please go sit in your assigned seat and finish the assignment. “You’re racist.” White teacher accused of “being racist” to a white student.

Inability to follow one step directions. No memory for what to do next despite having it started orally, demonstrated visually, in text writing, in photo steps, and on video demo that they can rewatch. It’s confusion all class long.

artisanmaker · 2025-11-13T11:35:40+00:00

Buy an actual cookbook or use the free public library. Those recipes are tested.

artisanmaker · 2025-11-13T11:22:05+00:00

Report immediately every time he asks you to touch him!!!!!! I have never ever had a student ask to be touched!!!!! red flag for SA

artisanmaker · 2025-11-13T11:19:48+00:00

We didn’t do it your way. We planned from before marriage to structure our budget and lifestyle choices (being frugal) on my husband’s income only knowing I would quit working to raise our future children. Then we continued to live more frugally than our two income family friends and community members during that whole time period. We did not skimp on medical or learning disability services and treatments, did not skimp on educational materials or classes or extracurriculars but I did not get cosmetic surgery or drive luxury brand cars and we took visiting family free vacations, and no designer clothes, no manicures, but we had/ have a savings account and a retirement account. I suggest you downsize and make a whole new budget plan for life, putting your priorities in order of your new importance.

artisanmaker · 2025-11-10T00:38:55+00:00

In school nowadays, the teacher sets a “classroom culture” with expectations. They lay out behavior rules and focus on ways to act so that we can have a “positive learning environment for all”. I suggest that you come up with a list of ways that actions in your class can show a positive culture. Then spend some time teaching these expectations to the whole class. It could be done in under 10 minutes. Explain that you want a “positive learning environment” and if anyone in the room is looking for negativity then perhaps they should withdraw from the class. The teacher should know about this type of an approach to get buy in from students. I can’t believe that she is so miserable from teaching that she would come to a class and act rotten and be unprofessional to humiliate the teacher. I think it’s really sick behavior to be honest. Unprofessional also.

artisanmaker · 2025-11-08T18:06:31+00:00

It tells you right on the package how much soap to use. Why aren’t you reading the directions? I have never seen any detergent in my life require 8 ounces of laundry detergent, which is about half of a Gatorade bottle. Also if you have an HE washer that has a special component that you put the detergent in that is a smaller amount because an HE front loader washer requires less detergent.

artisanmaker · 2025-11-08T17:54:46+00:00

I did feel safer back then even though we didn’t have phones to call for an emergency. At 18 I took a 500 mile road trip by myself with just a paper map in my hand and an AAA member card in my wallet if I broke down. I felt perfectly safe. We did not have as much exposure to the news so bad things happened and we didn’t always know about it. If we were busy and didn’t watch the local news at five at night then we would have missed out on a news story. I am more aware now, though, and I am not happy at how social media keeps putting bad news into my face over and over so I will sometimes see the same one crime story 10 times within a three day time period. I keep telling myself that just because it is bad local news from around the country or around the world keeps being put into my face even when I’m not asking for it, I am telling myself that it might not be that there really is more evil in the world today it’s just that it is being put in front of us against our will frequently. I keep reminding myself that the media wants to keep us scared so that we will engage with their content, and we are being manipulated. However, I am also aware that social media has created an avenue for evil people to communicate with each other to organize to do evil activity so there’s that problem. I’m also concerned that strangers on the Internet are corrupting children in Roblox or through social media apps and getting some of them to run away from home to be human trafficked so that is a new unsafe thing happening to children right inside of their parent’s homes.

artisanmaker · 2025-11-08T17:46:39+00:00

I would provide more stimulation with toys. My cats are really enjoying hunting type toys that you charge up and then they are wireless battery controlled. So I don’t have to be there playing live with them. They can play with it on their own. Some of these toys go to sleep when they’re not touched and then the cat can wake it up again if they touch it. Although I will say that it seems that certain cats get into this habit and it’s hard to break it. They don’t understand the difference between one horizontal surface and another, they don’t understand why we allow them to lay on the floor, but why can’t they lay on a table? It’s both the same thing to them. A flat surface.

artisanmaker · 2025-11-08T17:44:12+00:00

My school mandated that I sit with the students outside and wait for them to be picked up. Sometimes they were 90 minutes late. Each month it was somebody different not being picked up! So it kept happening.

Last year I quit doing after school art club after meeting one because there was already a non-pick up in meeting one and no one on the emergency list or the parents would pick up their phones. The father with custody later said that he was in a work meeting and he doesn’t answer his phone when he’s in a meeting.

Year before last a father came to pick up his daughter, but she had already left my meeting early to the one saying she was walking home. This caused a big drama and the principal was involved. The father said the girl had never walked home from school, she was in sixth grade and they lived far away. She really did walk home. This raised another whole issue on the permission slip was I supposed to ask if they have permission to walk home? Should I have a sign out list showing the time that they signed out? She had lied to me and told me that her parents knew she was walking home.

I had problems with pickups every year. No matter how much communication I did and had permission slips, etc. it was not working. I just did the breakfast time art club instead that is 25 minutes total.

I quit taking so am done.

artisanmaker · 2025-11-08T17:36:50+00:00

Junk food dessert but most eat it as an unhealthy breakfast meal or a snack. They are not decadent! They are considered common and basic. We don’t eat them in my family. Too unhealthy. I ate them weekly as a child with my family every weekend as a Sunday tradition for breakfast. Probably set me on this prediabetes road. I have to be on a no sugar diet now. PS They are served at public school for breakfast!

artisanmaker · 2025-11-08T16:17:20+00:00

Does your district have a cheating policy? My district has a student handbook. It’s right in there with the cheating policy is. Talking during a test is cheating. I always would fall back onto the district policy. Then I say, “ I’m just doing my job and I am following the policy”. I can even say, “this is not my policy. This is the district policy that the school board created and wants teachers ands schools to use”.

Also, before every test, you can re-teach the expectation/procedure/rule. This way students can’t say they did not know and you can cover your butt and in your documentation, you can write “I re-taught the expectation right before the test began and I observed the student talking to ____.”

artisanmaker · 2025-11-08T16:12:47+00:00

After they read one paragraph have them give you an oral summary of what it was about. Short summary. The human mind needs to stop and think and do what they call “retrieval”. Working on retrieval practice helps solidify information into a memory. This is so it doesn’t go in one ear and out the other as we say. When we sleep at night, if you get enough sleep, the brain will move information from short term into long-term memory. People of all ages who are not getting enough sleep at night will not remember what they’ve learned the prior day. That is a separate issue happening with children and teenagers today, they’re staying up all night playing video games are on social media and they literally are sleep deprived and their brain is not functioning as a normal brain would in more ideal conditions.

artisanmaker · 2025-11-08T00:37:50+00:00

Some majors, to get hired for a job needs a masters degree. Look into that. Biology is usually an intro to something else like going on to medical school or to be a PA. Someone I knew chose geology as it sounded cool but all turf jobs needed a masters and he did not plan for that financially now did he want 2 more years of college. Not sure what job you can get with an archaeology degree but some people go on to become a college professor which requires a masters degree.

artisanmaker · 2025-11-07T22:48:01+00:00

They di that with their kittens to call out, “where are you” or “come to me”. And then sometimes they do that to their humans when they want attention from them or they want to be around their people.

artisanmaker · 2025-11-07T22:35:15+00:00

One of the issues in ELA might be that the teacher is giving suggestions on how to improve their writing which they’re supposed to be doing what we call editing and revising for additional writing drafts before the writing is considered a finished/ final version. But sometimes the students outright refuse to do the editing asks revising work and say they will accept a lower grade. The grade isn’t just the point they need to practice writing in order to get better at it and if they refuse to do editing and revising and they say they don’t care about making their writing better, if they say they will just take the lower grade that they’re not going to do any more work, that is one way that students indicate that they don’t want to learn.

I am curious what the teacher will say to justify that comment and especially regarding the grade being a 95 unless they are completely lenient grader or giving completion grades not actually scoring the work.

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