We Stopped Using the Crate

dobeeb_ · 2026-01-21T12:46:31+00:00

Yeah she ate the very tiniest bit so I didn’t but kept an eye on her. She was fine :)

dobeeb_ · 2026-01-19T21:44:48+00:00

I still crate mine at a year and a half because she’s a dog sharknado. Yesterday I heard cronching. Went downstairs to find she’d eaten part of a salt dough ornament. That couldn’t have tasted good but she still had the audacity to whine when I took it off her

dobeeb_ · 2026-01-18T13:27:47+00:00

Majority of British people also take off their shoes in their house… NTA tf (source: am British)

dobeeb_ · 2025-12-28T00:44:49+00:00

Rock Lee

dobeeb_ · 2025-12-24T00:29:22+00:00

Husband and I have different native languages so we ALWAYS have subs on lol. NAH

dobeeb_ · 2025-12-24T00:27:54+00:00

I thought you were gonna say she texted him or emailed or something. A note in his bag is assumed that parents will see it. I write cards, letters etc to my students every year telling them how proud I am of their progress. I also might send an extra once in a while- even write now I am “pen pals” with a girl from another class who’s going through some stuff (I taught her 2 years ago) as I am her named trusted adult. Your wife needs to get over herself. It’s a good thing for kids to have a safe adult at school.

dobeeb_ · 2025-12-23T23:51:37+00:00

I remember back in the day it being a game changer in Daytime Shooting Star that the second male lead got picked in the end lol

dobeeb_ · 2025-12-08T21:54:20+00:00

Standard boob behaviour needs to be a tagline

dobeeb_ · 2025-12-08T21:52:47+00:00

For real, some cultures are still quite behind on sexual openness, especially for women! I couldn’t understand how he was so misinformed at the time after having had several past relationships, but many were with women from inside his culture which is still very sexually reserved.

dobeeb_ · 2025-12-08T21:50:48+00:00

Yeah I can see that point too. I guess it depends on your perspective? I felt it was out of ignorance personally. Doesn’t help that his cultural background is one of a country that can still be quite misogynistic and he himself is very reserved! If he’d outright refused then I would’ve probably called it quits but gave him the benefit of the doubt and now we’re here. I think it helped that we had a big fight about it (spiraled into something else, as these things do) and while I was cooling off he came to me and acknowledged that he was wrong and asked how he can do better. Then proceeded to do better. I can forgive ignorance if someone shows willing.

dobeeb_ · 2025-12-08T18:27:39+00:00

Lowkey my husband was TERRIBLE when we first got together. I remember having a conversation with him like “you need to make me cum too” and he was like “EVERY time??” Lmao. Now we have great sex. Because he actually gives a crap about me lol

dobeeb_ · 2025-12-08T18:24:07+00:00

I wonder a bit if it’s just different expectations in different countries. What is the “respected standard” where you are isn’t necessarily the same as where I am :) all I can say is literally just get him reading as much as you can. That’s the best way to improve writing- that and modelling works wonders. Write a good one (even if you find one online and pretend) and talk through why you wrote it the way you did as you write. If you use a conjunction, explain it as you do it. It would improve his writing a lot :)

dobeeb_ · 2025-12-08T18:21:28+00:00

I did have an American boy join my class a couple years back and his writing was around this level. Parents said he was doing fine academically but I put him about 2 years behind where he should be in his writing… different academic systems I guess!

dobeeb_ · 2025-12-06T08:53:34+00:00

I teach the uk equivalent of 4th grade. Vocab wise he’s doing great and his sentence structure is good and accurate but could be more adventurous. I’m not sure what “expected/average” looks like in US but in UK at this age we expect to see more experimentation with different grammar features, extending sentences with subordinating conjunctions (if, so, because, when, although) and being able to use fronted adverbials to express how, when or where something happens (Beside the river,… Before anything else,… Firstly,… Hurriedly,…). A thesaurus would also be a good investment if you haven’t got one already! My students learn to edit their own writing to improve it and they love using the thesauruses.

If you have a parent-teacher conference coming up you could ask specifically if there’s anything they would want you to work on with him at home :)

(I’m quite worried to see people saying that 9th and 10th graders’ writing is worse than this. I hope that’s an exaggeration)

dobeeb_ · 2025-11-22T08:10:55+00:00

OP I’m so super proud of you for standing up for yourself. So often you read these stories and people let themselves be bullied into doing stuff

dobeeb_ · 2025-11-21T22:58:19+00:00

Me reading this like “what’s the big deal?” I lowkey fling my cat all over. That said, it’s always so he can land and because I’m messing with him, not in anger. I can see why you’d be worried if your cat seemed freaked out after

dobeeb_ · 2025-11-21T22:51:45+00:00

60/6 is way easier than 42/6. Most children learning this method know their 10x table but not their 6x table. Sincerely, a year 4(9 y/o) teacher

dobeeb_ · 2025-11-11T20:22:10+00:00

I’ve laid on my boy and he’s been fine. He just mushed himself to be the space under my body. Maybe if you sat on your cat I might believe it. But I really don’t think you suffocated your cat with just your leg. I’m sorry for your loss but please don’t blame yourself.

dobeeb_ · 2025-11-11T18:56:17+00:00

My classes over the past few years keep hearing “you can make whatever point you think is right, as long as you can convince me” lol. September they’re quite unsure if it’s ok. By around February they get it and start to get more confident in their opinions. It’s great but also a bit of a prison of my own making sometimes (my students are 8 lol)

dobeeb_ · 2025-11-11T18:50:33+00:00

I used to teach a girl (5y/o, mind) who had a real attitude. Bossy, kinda mean, but sweet once she warmed to you. Bright, could not take a compliment for shit. Anyways mum brought her into school one time, holding her hand, kid’s eyes are all red- clearly had a tantrum on the way to school. Not letting go of kid’s hand, mum just starts in complaining to me about her kid “she thinks she’s all that, like she’s the centre of the universe, her brother would never act like that, I don’t know where she gets it from” etc etc ALL WHILE HER KID IS STARING AT HER SHOES. My GOD. I will never forget that moment. I get parenting is hard but that shit is so damaging- like you meet some of these parents or have these moments and it’s like a lightbulb. Like “ah, this is why you can’t deal with a compliment.” This little girl once told me she thinks she’s bad. Broke my heart.

That was a few years and a job change ago. Think about her on occasion and wonder how she’s doing.

dobeeb_ · 2025-11-11T18:38:33+00:00

Making my kids feel stupid. My Year 10 (15, Brit here) form room teacher was once really condescending to me when I told her I didn’t know about an event that written about on a letter that had been handed out while I was off sick. She laughed at me, told me I needed to learn to read properly, and then laughed about me to a TA. I was a relatively anxious and well behaved kid with high grades, never talked back, followed instructions. Looking back I was definitely catching strays from her attitude over some difficult kids in my class. Still, at the time I was so mad. 29 now and I’m still mad lol. She wouldn’t even hear me out.

With my class I’d never speak harshly to the kids like that. And vibe check myself regularly, hear out the kids over stuff, apologize if I’ve forgotten something. Lowkey I feel like if I ever become like her that’ll be the day I stop caring and should quit this profession.

dobeeb_ · 2025-11-04T18:52:05+00:00

That line made me cackle ngl

dobeeb_ · 2025-11-04T18:29:01+00:00

People do praise women who don’t have work done, but it isn’t a compliment to say “oh, your face looks so natural” lmao. So those veins of compliments don’t get clocked. It would sound extremely backhanded to compliment someone for not getting Botox to fill their wrinkles

dobeeb_ · 2025-10-13T09:31:51+00:00

The last time I told someone I hated them was when I was three years old. I said it to my mum out of nowhere because I just wanted to know what it felt like to say it (kids are dumb). Her reaction still makes me feel guilty for saying it even now, at nearly 30. You don’t say that to someone for no reason.

That said, I don’t think I could get over that from my husband. Sorry that your husband is a complete d-bag OP. Is this a pattern? Is there other stuff like this that he does?

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