I just read the sub log from Friday. I’ve been freaked out cause I got the awful sub. He said over and over how great and amazing my kids were and how he didn’t have to do anything to enforce discipline.
Duh. My kids wouldn’t dare.
Ok, that’s my brag for the day. 🙂
(Have I mentioned that my kids *love* me? They won’t mess up because then I get upset and ask what I have done that has let them down so much that they think that behavior is acceptable.)
I suppose that counts as a constructive use of the ‘guilt trip’… I am amused. As long as it’s not the only weapon in your arsenal, and I know it’s -not-, because it wouldn’t work if it were. 😉
That’s just cute.
Guilt. A popular tool of mothers everywhere.
Beware the kid who figures out how to break the enmeshment by setting a reasonable boundary.
As Malixe pointed out, guilt trips are one small part of my overall arsenal. I have remarkably good relationships with my students. I try my best to figure out how each kid needs to be approached. And I don’t think it is enmeshment to want kids to think about how their behavior will affect other people.
And you think you’re not Jewish…. YEESH!
Catholics and Mennonites use guilt too. Ya’ll don’t have a monopoly.
Don’t forget crazy orthodox Lutherans with their paddles and their wooden stocks.
It seems you have managed to get the kids to behave with out the stocks, though. Well done!
It took a second read-through of this, and a bit of confusion, to get that you are talking about teaching kids, not some kind of bdsm class with demonstrations and stuff where this guy was, like, learning from you and… yeah, I can’t even explain what I thought because it made no sense and why would it when it is so far off the mark?
I bought a riding crop yesterday for a costume and I think my mind’s stayed kind of dirty ever since. Sorry.
You could have borrowed a riding crop you know. Unless of course you want to keep it and have it around. *grin*
Well, yeah, you’re right, I could have borrowed one, but (a) it never occurred to me, and (b) it’s one of those things that you never know if you’ll need at a later date.
Considering the amount of fun it’s produced thus far, I’d say it’s been worth the investment.
Yeah, I got more than halfway through this before I realized you didn’t mean that kind of sub, and then I had to go back and re-read to make sense of it 🙂