DawnT
Sous Chef
How about a hot tub shed next to the woodshed? Then those that are behaving, can watch the one that were "misbehaving"!!
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Barbara L
Traveling Welcome Wagon
How funny! One year the other 4th grade teachers decided to have the kids who didn't behave go to detention during lunch and recess (they still got lunch but had to eat it in the detention room). We took turns doing detention duty. Most of them had the kids do homework or read, or just lay their heads down. I didn't do that. In my opinion, they were not there to do their homework, which would free them up to goof off more at home, and sleeping was a treat which allowed them to get away from detention mentally if not physically. When I had detention they sat and looked forward. They were not allowed to look anywhere but at me. Also, if they dropped their food on the floor they had to do another day of detention. One parent objected to it because her son said that it was an accident that he dropped his food all over the floor (she was also the head custodian), but when I explained my position, she was fine with it. He was the only one who ever dropped his food--can you imagine how many "accidents" there would have been if I let them get by with it? Anyway, needless to say the kids hated doing detention in my room (but they still liked me, and they admitted I was fair). I even heard some kids in other classes ask which teacher had detention that week, and if it was me they waited to misbehave! I wasn't able to get work done or read or anything when I did detention, like the other teachers did, but it was worth it to me. By the way, the other teachers decided against having detention after that year--partly because they didn't want to do it, but also because some teachers (like me) only gave detention for fairly serious things, and others gave it for petty things....the worst punishment would be to send them there with no computer and to stare at the cracks on the wall (wood in this case) all day.......happened to my son when he was 15.........wasn't doing his homework....they chased him down put him in room 13 and gave him 2 bathroom and a lunch break and if he got up he had another day of room 13. Guess what? My son who always learns the hard way got up and he spent another day in there........he said that he memorized every crevice and crannies on those 4 bare walls. Never had a problem turning in homework after that............
Fisher's Mom, I have made kids write apology letters too! I mostly did it when they had given a sub or their special area teachers a hard time, but sometimes for other things too. Once, when they wouldn't stop talking during morning announcements, I had them all write a letter to the principal, telling him why they felt what they had to say was more important than what he had to say. I did not send those letters to him, but I told them I would the next time they had to do it.
I'm so mean!
BarbaraDawnT
Sous Chef
Barbara L, I once caught a student writing on a table in the cafeteria during study hall. I gave him the option of being sent to detention or having me dole out the punishment. He chose me(silly boy). I gave him a sponge and a bucket of soapy water and he had to wash all the tables that were not being used, dry them and then ask everyone to move to the ones he had just washed so he could wash the rest of the tables. As if that wasn't enough, I then had him call his mother and explain what he had just finished doing and why. Needless to say, he never wrote on another table again, and his mother was pleased to say that his new chore at home was to wash the dinner table at home!!!
Fisher's Mom
Executive Chef
I love that! Make the punishment fit the crime. And really, that's the kind of "guidance" they never forget.Barbara L, I once caught a student writing on a table in the cafeteria during study hall. I gave him the option of being sent to detention or having me dole out the punishment. He chose me(silly boy). I gave him a sponge and a bucket of soapy water and he had to wash all the tables that were not being used, dry them and then ask everyone to move to the ones he had just washed so he could wash the rest of the tables. As if that wasn't enough, I then had him call his mother and explain what he had just finished doing and why. Needless to say, he never wrote on another table again, and his mother was pleased to say that his new chore at home was to wash the dinner table at home!!!
DawnT
Sous Chef
I actually had his sister last week and she asked if I was "That Teacher". LOL!!!
goodness, SuzieQ, you weren't kidding about getting up early were you?????? I just looked at the time......I thought that I got up early............well, I guess Legos Lassie needs an eye on her doesn't she???
LOL I was up an hour and a half by that time!!!
I usually get up at 4. Legos must be removed by 6:30.
Barbara L
Traveling Welcome Wagon
I'm exactly the opposite. If I am up at 4:00 a.m. (which I usually am), it is because I haven't gone to bed yet.LOL I was up an hour and a half by that time!!!
I usually get up at 4. Legos must be removed by 6:30.
Barbara
OP
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Dove
DC Grandma
Barbara..you and I have the same problem..I don't know what i will do when the N.C. family goes to bed at 9PM. I will be sleeping in the same room with Paul's niece. (she is a retired school teacher)+++++++++++++Marge gets a trip to the woodshed++++++++Maybe a hot tub Elf just might work. LOL
I think a tub just outside the shed would work too..and a hard bench to sit on since there will be room for more than one..I am sworn to secrecy as to who the last "visitor" was .He was nice about reporting in on time though. ( I once dated a Drill Sargent in the Marine Corps..so beware) [/B]
I think a tub just outside the shed would work too..and a hard bench to sit on since there will be room for more than one..I am sworn to secrecy as to who the last "visitor" was .He was nice about reporting in on time though. ( I once dated a Drill Sargent in the Marine Corps..so beware) [/B]
Barbara L
Traveling Welcome Wagon
You will have to sneak out and get online--we can chat!
Yikes--9p.m. here is only 6p.m. where you are from. You are either going to have to adjust quickly or just resign yourself to not getting any sleep! Barbara
expatgirl
Master Chef
Barbara......I'm setting an alarm clock for you that will deliver a computer shock if you stay up too late ......I've witnessed first hand how late you stay up online because your wee hours are my late afternoons..........and you need your sleep, GF........
Marge.......I bet I have an idea as to the top 3 winners.......when your new woodshed is built we need to have an inauguration party and the nbr. 1 visitor needs to break a champagne bottle over the front door and then we'll all hop into the hot tub and celebrate......Mudbug can probably get you a good deal on one...he seems to be fairly experienced in that dept.
......I've witnessed first hand how late you stay up online because your wee hours are my late afternoons..........and you need your sleep, GF........Marge.......I bet I have an idea as to the top 3 winners.......when your new woodshed is built we need to have an inauguration party and the nbr. 1 visitor needs to break a champagne bottle over the front door and then we'll all hop into the hot tub and celebrate......Mudbug can probably get you a good deal on one...he seems to be fairly experienced in that dept.
expatgirl
Master Chef
LOL! Tomorrow's engineer!
SixSix210
Senior Cook
sensory deprivation chamber?
how about fran dresher?
how about fran dresher?
expatgirl
Master Chef
you're cruel.....I rather listen to nails scraping across a chalkboard than Fran's "melodic voice"
Barbara L
Traveling Welcome Wagon
LOL I sleep, but I just don't do it when everyone else does! Now that I am working (a whole 4.5 hours this week--lol) afternoons, it works out pretty well. I just sleep later than I used to. When I get a regular teaching job again, it will take some getting used to getting back on a regular sleep schedule! Not that I ever got to bed early. I do need to work on it though!Barbara......I'm setting an alarm clock for you that will deliver a computer shock if you stay up too late
Barbara
expatgirl
Master Chef
I understand......try a 12 hour time zone difference...... the jetlag is not fun.......and I see that you are online........ Maybe you're on Kazakh time? Come for a visit!! We're dying for teachers over here........
Maybe you're on Kazakh time? Come for a visit!! We're dying for teachers over here........Barbara L
Traveling Welcome Wagon
Do they have any CAD jobs for James? Don't be surprised if you find us on your doorstep!I understand......try a 12 hour time zone difference...... the jetlag is not fun.......and I see that you are online........
Barbara
Chief Longwind Of The North
Certified/Certifiable
Go ahead. Make the woodshed as diabolical as you want to. I don't know why, maybe it's because I'm sooooo lovable and cute. But I've never been called to the woodshed. Now some of my buddies around here... I won't mention any names.
If I were placed in an empty woodshed, I'd be studdying the insects that always inhbit such structures, or the thinkness, length, and suppleness of the switch. I could spend hours imagining shapes, or people's faces in the woodgrains. Or I could even be creating my next novel. I never get board. I create recipes in my head, or engineer different possibilities for making the perfect, biodegradable fishing lure, or how to make a boat more efficient and faster. I don't even need pencil and paper.
My parents were always perplexed about how to punish me. People with active minds are hard to bore. But if you have to punnish the unruly and creative types, nothing works mutch better than giving them some simplistic and repititous task that has little or no meaning. But even then, one can simply flip a switch in one's mind as it were, and find the benefits of the chore. Digging worthless holes, filling them in, and re-digging builds discipline, endurance, strength, and physical stamina. Whitewashing a fence builds hand/eye coordination and flexibility. Any physical labor can be used to better oneself.
Just how do you punish someone when they insist on looking at the positive aspects of anything that is done to them. Make me sit still and completely quiet and I'll use the time to meditate, or relax myself. You can't win.
Make me listen to music that I don't care for, and I'll start analyzing the note structures, or the lyrical content, or the effectiveness of the subject. I can find something positive about virtually everything.
Now what am I going to launch next from the trebutchet at B's Girl's house? Hmmmmm. I think maybe that 3-day old pot of boiled dinner that got left out on the counter could be put into a propper baloon and down her chimney.
Ahahahahaha.
Seeeeeeeeya; Goodweed of the North
. But I've never been called to the woodshed. Now some of my buddies around here... I won't mention any names.If I were placed in an empty woodshed, I'd be studdying the insects that always inhbit such structures, or the thinkness, length, and suppleness of the switch. I could spend hours imagining shapes, or people's faces in the woodgrains. Or I could even be creating my next novel. I never get board. I create recipes in my head, or engineer different possibilities for making the perfect, biodegradable fishing lure, or how to make a boat more efficient and faster. I don't even need pencil and paper.
My parents were always perplexed about how to punish me. People with active minds are hard to bore. But if you have to punnish the unruly and creative types, nothing works mutch better than giving them some simplistic and repititous task that has little or no meaning. But even then, one can simply flip a switch in one's mind as it were, and find the benefits of the chore. Digging worthless holes, filling them in, and re-digging builds discipline, endurance, strength, and physical stamina. Whitewashing a fence builds hand/eye coordination and flexibility. Any physical labor can be used to better oneself.
Just how do you punish someone when they insist on looking at the positive aspects of anything that is done to them. Make me sit still and completely quiet and I'll use the time to meditate, or relax myself. You can't win.
Make me listen to music that I don't care for, and I'll start analyzing the note structures, or the lyrical content, or the effectiveness of the subject. I can find something positive about virtually everything.
Now what am I going to launch next from the trebutchet at B's Girl's house? Hmmmmm. I think maybe that 3-day old pot of boiled dinner that got left out on the counter could be put into a propper baloon and down her chimney.
Ahahahahaha.
Seeeeeeeeya; Goodweed of the North
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expatgirl
Master Chef
Oh, it was so easy to punish my daughter when she was in middle school. Told her the night before to have all of her band stuff ready for a band concert.......long trip and not much time.......I was greeted with hurried and annoyed "I will.......I will.....I will......'s etc., etc., " Sure enough the next afternoon she is running around the house like a chicken without a head finding this and that and me screaming at her to hurry up.......she had done ZIP as far as having everything ready---when she fumbled thru the laundry I had to restrain myself from just letting her have it......then I thought of a more diabolical plan which calmed my nerves..........finally we get into the car and as usual she reaches to put on her favorite music.......oh, no........mon cherie......since you didn't do what I asked you to do and you reassured me that you'd be ready your punishment is to listen to MY music the whole way there and the whole way back......I then turned on my favorite soothing Enya DVD.......and she had no ipod or earplugs to drown out my music.......it was sheer torture for her........if you make me wait for your music then you're listening to mine......for once I was glad that it was a long trip....hahaha
