Teaching Styles via my mom
Mom Teaches Caitlin
Mom: No Caitie. Don't throw your shoe. Come here and let me show you how to tie it again. No, Caitlin. Don't hit John just because you can't tie your shoe. You can do it. You're a big girl.
Mom: Yes, Caitie, I see that you're a fountain, but you have to stop spitting pool water out of your mouth. Go practice kicking like the other kids.
Mom: Hey, Caitie. You have to stop picking up grasshoppers and trying to squirt out tobacco juice. You're going to get hit in the head by the ball if you don't pay attention. Yes, your glove is cool and your hat is great.
Mom: Good girl. I know you threw the basketball in, but you have to quit high fiving and get down the court. But, yeah, good girl.
Mom: Caitlin Elizabeth. Can you just read the actual words on the page and stop making up the story? Good girl.
Caitlin Teaches Mom
Cait: OK. You need to have a name. How about seximamacita or toohauttohandle or hotmommess or....
Mom: I think just Russ Ann.
Cait: or chrysantheMom or Momstheword or...
Mom: Just Russ Ann
Cait: All right. To add a picture or an article or whatever you just see if it's a jpeg or a url and if it's not a jpeg click no photo then copy image location and use url instead and then paste and if...
Mom: Wait a minute. What?
Cait: Mom, it's not that hard. Just find the article and see if it's url or jpeg and right click on this and then move it to here and import it there and....Mom, quit writing this down. It's not that hard.
Mom: Cait, what if someone sat you down and said, "Here's middle C and a C sharp and a B flat and that's how you play them on a clarinet and a tuba and an oboe and that's enough training...now go play a symphony." How would you like that?
Cait: Oh.
May 20th