ways in which i have become my mother (part 1 of a continuing series also known as as-claire-gets-older-she-becomes-her-mama):
1. i ask my students (mostly girls), "are you warm enough??" when they wear skirts in the winter without tights. when you are a teenager i know that there is no worse question. AND STILL I DO IT. it's like an automatic reaction. i can't control it.
2. all of our students have laptops that have been provided by the school. in order to save battery life, many of the kids turn down the brightness level of the screen. i spend a lot of time saying, "you are hurting your eyes - how can you read that?" this is the 21st century equivalent of when my mom would say, "do you have enough light to read by?" when i would say yes, she would turn another lamp on.
i am only 27, team. if i'm doing this now, what will i be like in 10 years???
i think being a teacher accelerates my travels on the already inevitable path.
[note: i have a pretty awesome mama, so maybe this is an good thing.]
That thing about Mom turning on a lamp, even if you said you had enough light, is SO TRUE.
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