life lessons
one of my 11 (yes, 11) kids i taught today said to me "since you're a teacher, you should teach us life lessons."
so i told my kids that no matter what, never be emo. that was their life lesson for today. i told them i didn't care if they walked away knowing how to ski or not... but if they ever became emo, i was going to hunt them down and slap them upside the head.
then when one of the parents was picking up their kid, she goes "justin taught us that we should never be an emo." and the dad was like "yes, yes that's very good advice." so i told him he'll be thanking me for that one in the next 3 or 4 years. luckily he appreciated the humor in telling that to his kid and wasn't pissed.
i need to be careful what i tell kids because i've learned they relay that to their parents quite often. last week, i showed the kids i had a giraffe animal cracker and told them it looked like it was biting his butt, ergo making it a buttmunching giraffe. one kid found that so funny she put one in her pocket and showed her mom when she picked her up. again, luckily her mom found the humor in it. right after i said the giraffe comment another kid picks up the monkey animal cracker and goes "yeah, and it looks like this monkey is shaving his balls." that i found fucking hilarious, but i couldn't show it. maybe i'm just a toys r' us kid at heart.
the other thing i love this job is subtly making fun of the stupid things my kids do. for instance, a few days ago this kid put his jacket on upside down and he comes up to me and says "i have a problem with getting my goggles on." and i said "really? just your goggles? are you sure that's your biggest problem right now?" he got kinda confused and i asked him if anything was wrong with his jacket, but he said no. so i asked him to try zipping it up and he still didn't see that it was on upside down. so i finally just said, "how about you take your jacket off first and put it on the right way... then we can worry about your goggles."
i'm an ass... but i love it.
so i told my kids that no matter what, never be emo. that was their life lesson for today. i told them i didn't care if they walked away knowing how to ski or not... but if they ever became emo, i was going to hunt them down and slap them upside the head.
then when one of the parents was picking up their kid, she goes "justin taught us that we should never be an emo." and the dad was like "yes, yes that's very good advice." so i told him he'll be thanking me for that one in the next 3 or 4 years. luckily he appreciated the humor in telling that to his kid and wasn't pissed.
i need to be careful what i tell kids because i've learned they relay that to their parents quite often. last week, i showed the kids i had a giraffe animal cracker and told them it looked like it was biting his butt, ergo making it a buttmunching giraffe. one kid found that so funny she put one in her pocket and showed her mom when she picked her up. again, luckily her mom found the humor in it. right after i said the giraffe comment another kid picks up the monkey animal cracker and goes "yeah, and it looks like this monkey is shaving his balls." that i found fucking hilarious, but i couldn't show it. maybe i'm just a toys r' us kid at heart.
the other thing i love this job is subtly making fun of the stupid things my kids do. for instance, a few days ago this kid put his jacket on upside down and he comes up to me and says "i have a problem with getting my goggles on." and i said "really? just your goggles? are you sure that's your biggest problem right now?" he got kinda confused and i asked him if anything was wrong with his jacket, but he said no. so i asked him to try zipping it up and he still didn't see that it was on upside down. so i finally just said, "how about you take your jacket off first and put it on the right way... then we can worry about your goggles."
i'm an ass... but i love it.