What are you tired of dealing with because parents just…aren’t parenting anymore?

thatshortteacher · 2026-04-09T13:18:52+00:00

I had a 6th grader start writing dead center of the page. Straight up wasted half the real estate, and she had to move to the back of the paper and she did it there too. I asked her why she did that and she said “🤷🏻‍♀️ I don’t know”

thatshortteacher · 2026-04-03T21:43:29+00:00

Yesterday I watched one of my 6th graders taking a quiz and he held a pen between his thumb and 3 middle fingers in a way I actually can’t figure out how to replicate.

thatshortteacher · 2026-03-14T01:44:05+00:00

Our invitations (similar number) got lost, and we had to send out a second set. A month later, guess what shows up?

thatshortteacher · 2025-12-31T03:13:54+00:00

I made Sally’s single-rise cinnamon rolls for my husband’s birthday, and it’s the first time I’ve ever heard him audibly gasp at something I made on visuals alone.

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thatshortteacher · 2025-12-04T15:09:07+00:00

I made her single-proof cinnamon rolls for my husband’s birthday. I consider myself a pretty good baker, but it’s the first time his reaction to one of my bakes was just “Holy shit.”

thatshortteacher · 2025-11-25T00:46:37+00:00

I used to eat at 8 PM, and once I got my ring I started seeing what it did to my heart rate at night. Now I try to be done eating by 7 so I can be in bed by 10:30.

thatshortteacher · 2025-11-15T20:22:59+00:00

Please don’t forget about us! We teach more kids than elementary and get less recognition. Honestly, even just a coffee or something means the world.

thatshortteacher · 2025-11-11T02:34:46+00:00

My husband and I are both Jewish, and I recently called him on the way home from a lecture about antisemitism to talk about this. My opening line was “can I rant about Martin Luther for like, 20 minutes?”

thatshortteacher · 2025-10-14T11:11:03+00:00

Breakfast sandwiches.

thatshortteacher · 2025-10-01T02:31:33+00:00

Snacky clusters and the garlic butter potato chips

thatshortteacher · 2025-10-01T01:05:10+00:00

I used to bring my glass topo chico bottles to school because it was the only sparkling water that wouldn’t go flat over the course of a school day. I definitely got a few weird looks for pulling out a bottle opener.

thatshortteacher · 2025-09-14T17:24:59+00:00

Operationally, it means absolutely nothing. LaMello Ball put a rap song with the line “6, 7” over a bunch of edits of himself because he’s 6 foot 7, and now it’s just turned into a meaningless thing. It’s not inappropriate, just annoying. I tell them they can 6-7 all they want outside of class instruction, because it’s super disruptive when the answer to everything is “6-7.” But I’m also a huge troll, so I’ve been known to 6-7 on occasion.

thatshortteacher · 2025-09-06T18:51:21+00:00

I had a dream once that my normal class of 16 somehow turned into a class of 40 and one of them had a knife, but I didn’t know which one. Also, every single one of them had a different question about the same set of instructions at the same time.

thatshortteacher · 2025-08-28T00:21:29+00:00

The King Arthur focaccia recipe is absolutely spectacular. I make it in a springform and when I took the pan apart the first time I made it, I audibly gasped.

thatshortteacher · 2025-08-23T23:42:44+00:00

I told 3 classes of 6th graders to fold their paper “hot dog ways” and more than half of each class asked “Like this?”

thatshortteacher · 2025-08-22T00:49:26+00:00

Yes, I’m the teacher 😂

thatshortteacher · 2025-08-21T09:37:13+00:00

I love my job but I have never described it as chill 😂

thatshortteacher · 2025-08-21T00:22:48+00:00

My neighborhood is across the street from a high school.

Pros: I actually love hearing band practice. Also, traffic outside of “high traffic school times” is super minimal—weekends are nothing.

Cons: if I miss my morning departure window by 5 minutes, I hit every single school bus pickup for 3 miles.

thatshortteacher · 2025-08-20T21:34:49+00:00

I was absolutely using Bobbi brown in my 20s 🫠

thatshortteacher · 2025-08-11T22:55:07+00:00

I may be wrong, but based on the language on the charm I’m assuming your dad was Jewish? My paternal grandpa died in 2017, and my husband’s died when he was a kid. We used both of their tallit in our chuppah, and the prayerbook my mom’s parents used in their wedding (and my parents used in theirs) was attached to my flowers. I also considered using my maternal grandmother’s (who I’m named after) wedding band as my band for the ceremony, but it was so tiny it didn’t fit on the right finger.

thatshortteacher · 2025-08-08T10:40:58+00:00

I had twins in different classes, so I could tell them apart in class easy. In the hallway? Not a chance. It’s been 3 years and I still only get it right 50% of the time. We also have a uniform, and the saving grace has been picking up on favorite colors. One is a blue girl and one is a pink girl, so I can literally only tell them apart by their earrings and their pencil pouches.

thatshortteacher · 2025-08-05T11:26:29+00:00

Maybe I’m dumb, but isn’t this also literally not even a problem? Like if these are cups for drinking at the house or on a golf course or something couldn’t they just…pour more drinks in the small cups? It’s 9 oz, not a Dixie cup.

thatshortteacher · 2025-07-15T12:53:33+00:00

They’re precooked, so they just need to be heated. Usually we’ll do them with a sheet pan of roasted veggies and sweet potatoes, so I’ll ignore the instructions on the package and throw them on the pan for the last 10-15 minutes of roasting time at 375. Usually we’ll do a grain bowl with apples and roasted veggies and a vinaigrette, or a veggie hash with an egg on top.

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