[nextpage title=”Page 1″ ] NOTE: What follows is a rather detailed and somewhat gruesome account of my experience with c-sections and postnatal recovery. This is certainly not everyone’s experience; in fact, many women report incident-free and even pleasant c-section and postnatal experiences. With that said, if you’ve never had a […]
Author: Lola Lolita
Stop Yer Starin’: A Special Needs Request
Special needs parents have many pleas: that their little ones overcome their latest obstacles, that insurance covers the most needed treatments, and that someone will give our kids a chance in the future. But of all the pleas special needs parents have, the one that tops the list is the […]
33 Things I Thought While Teaching This Week
Now that school’s back in swing and I’m feeling that familiar old routine settling in, I’ve noticed my mind has started to wander during the school day the way it’s wont to do. Sure, I’m always thinking about the lesson at hand and surveying the room to see who has a question […]
Teachers’ Guide to Surviving Data Analysis
If you’re employed as a K-12 educator in the United States of America (and possibly elsewhere), you know all too well the unpleasantness that is data analysis. (And if you don’t know anything about that of which I speak, you’re either not paying one bit of attention to what’s happening […]
Feels-B-Gone: An Innovative Product for People with Too Many Feels
[nextpage title=”Page 1″ ] The other day at lunch, my colleague was telling us about a great new product she discovered to help her kitty cat cope with the stress of riding in the car. It’s called Feliway, and it’s basically a package of kitty wipes that release calming cat […]
I Let Siri Babysit My Kid
Mr. Sammich and I are Android people, which means we have only passing experience with Siri. From what I can tell, she can be a real unhelpful bitch sometimes. In fact, after I spent one particular weekend listening to my mother argue with Siri about everything from search results to […]
Guest Post: The “Talk” Happened
I’m very excited to welcome Emily of Our house, now a home as a guest writer this week. I hope you enjoy her experience having the dreaded “talk” with a child. Don’t forget to head on over to check out her blog and to follow her on her social media […]
Don’t Be THAT Parent at Open House
The new school year is here, y’all, and that means open house or parent night is just around the corner. Here’s the thing about that, though. We teachers dread it. We don’t really want to be there. Like, at all. Especially if we’ve already been at school since 7 am, keeping children […]