You might be a teaching parent if...

Please imagine your best Jeff Foxworthy voice as you read these…

1. If every time you get in a vehicle, you do a head count to make sure no one is left behind… (even when not working)

…You might be a Teaching Parent

2. If you can name at least 5 psychotropic medications off the top of your head in under 10 seconds…

…AND

3. If while naming the psychotropic meds, you smack your forehead trying to remember what the large gray one with blue lettering is… (It is Depakote, by the way.)                     …You might be a Teaching Parent

4. If you are off duty, and your cell phone/PDA/internal anxiety alarms all go off reminding you it is time to give out meds…

…You might be a Teaching Parent

5. If you know more hiding places in the house then most of your kids combined…

…You might be a Teaching Parent

6. If the alarms in your house are used less to keep people OUT then to keep the kids IN…

…You might be a Teaching Parent

7. If grocery day is reminiscent of a UN food shipment to a small third-world country…

…You might be a Teaching Parent

8. If the most common conversation in your house starts out, “When you follow instructions, you look at the person…”

…You might be a Teaching Parent

9. If you spend more time teaching “Stop, Look, and Listen” as opposed to “Stop, Drop, and Roll…”

…You might be a Teaching Parent

10. If you are a couple with kids, and your kids get excited when it is time to go off duty…

… You might be a Teaching Parent

11. If you use the word “Consequence” as a verb, despite the poor usage of syntax…

…You might be a Teaching Parent

12. When you are standing around with a group of your peers, if a boy walks up and says “Mister…” and all of you look to see who he is talking to…

…You might be a Teaching Parent(Since we rarely are standing with anyone OTHER than other Teaching Parents.)

13. If you begin to wonder if a kid is trying to send a message through Morse code after the 6^th time of the door being slammed…

…You might be a Teaching Parent

14. If you consider coffee and other caffeinated sodas a food group… (Especially around day 7-8.)

…You might be a Teaching Parent

15. If you believe that ALL brass instruments are some kind of sick joke by the Public School System…

…You might be a Teaching Parent

16. If you consider Summer Vacation a combat tour…

…You might be a Teaching Parent

17. If dinner starts to be prepared right as the kids get on the bus to go to school, and your preparations are for 8-12 people at a time…

…You might be a Teaching Parent

18. If you are out to eat on your days off and you see a van in the parking lot, and then wonder what cottage was brave enough to bring their kids out to eat in public…  …You might be a Teaching Parent

19. If you hope you don’t run into them(at the restaurant) until you are at least on your way out…

…You might be a Teaching Parent

20. If when driving around town, you wave to every other van, similar to the way bikers wave to each other…

...AND

21. THEY wave BACK…

…You might be a Teaching Parent

22. If you keep a note pad by your bed to write down new effective and innovative consequences and rewards as they come to you in your dreams…

…You might be a Teaching Parent

23. If When are out in public, you always see someone who looks like they could be a little brother or sister to “so & so…”

…AND…

      24. …you start to think of stories that “so & so” did that make you laugh, but did not make you laugh at the time.

                                    …You might be a Teaching Parent

      25. If you are amazed that God has trusted YOU of all people, with so much…     (Seriously)               .... You might be a Teaching Parent

-list compiled by Micheal Clements

Wildfire

Texas is in the midst of the worst drought in about 60 years!  Other than the blazing hot temperatures this summer we've been relatively unaffected... until this week.  A fire broke out about 30 miles north of where I live and work.  Smoke billowed out over our campus and we were told to implement the first stage of our evacuation plan. Everyone packed a bag of their most valuable possessions and clothes and the vehicles were readied for a speedy exit. This caused quite a stir of emotions as the kids had to pick and chose their most precious belongings.  And the prayers went up.  God covered our campus with his protection.  Right down the road we watched smoke billowing up from the fire.  Officials evacuated the houses down the road from us.  And we prayed again and again. We went to bed fully expecting to get a phone call in the middle of the night telling us to leave.  It didn't come.  In fact, the next morning when we got up, the smoke was significantly less on our campus.  We spent a couple more days on official notice, but never had to evacuate. God is good!  And as devastating as the fires are, it is a reassurance that he DOES have his hand all over this campus.  These are HIS kids and he will watch over them and protect them!