Please imagine your best Jeff Foxworthy voice as you read these…
- 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
- If you can name at least 5 psychotropic medications off the top of your head in under 10 seconds…
…AND
- 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
- 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
- If you know more hiding places in the house then most of your kids combined…
…You might be a Teaching Parent
- 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
- If grocery day is reminiscent of a UN food shipment to a small third-world country…
…You might be a Teaching Parent
- 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
- If you spend more time teaching “Stop, Look, and Listen” as opposed to “Stop, Drop, and Roll…”
…You might be a Teaching Parent
- 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
- If you use the word “Consequence” as a verb, despite the poor usage of syntax…
…You might be a Teaching Parent
- 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.)
- If you begin to wonder if a kid is trying to send a message through Morse code after the 6th time of the door being slammed…
…You might be a Teaching Parent
- If you consider coffee and other caffeinated sodas a food group… (Especially around day 7-8.)
…You might be a Teaching Parent
- If you believe that ALL brass instruments are some kind of sick joke by the Public School System…
…You might be a Teaching Parent
- If you consider Summer Vacation a combat tour…
…You might be a Teaching Parent
- 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
- 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
- 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
- If when driving around town, you wave to every other van, similar to the way bikers wave to each other…
...AND
- THEY wave BACK…
…You might be a Teaching Parent
- 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
- 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
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