On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 17:41:41 GMT, Errol Groff wrote:
I teach at a vo-tech high school and ofen when something bad or
annoying happens with my students I (when I get over being furious)
can trace the source back to something I didn't do. Didn't put
something away, didn't have a student move something to it's proper
storage spot etc. Or didn't cut off some mis behavior before it got
out of hand.

I have four boys, 3+. That is exactly how I find our relationship.
As for leaving things out, it does not help that I am a night person,
and they (for the most part) are morning people. I just make efforst
not to leave accessible, anything they should not access.

And the older I get, the more it seems the same oversights cause me
problems... Didn't put it away, now I can't find it. Took a shortcut
and broke something. Left the soldering iron hot and burned myself or
something set down on the iron. Loaned a tool (or dvd or...) without
setting time expectations for return, and have to retrieve it. Etc.

Other people can and do cause problems, but I must admit that reasonable
expectations of their behavior leave me responsible for most of them.

sdb

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