Seemingly trivial things that elicit an emotional response of some kind

[briantrumpet]

I wouldn't know. I specialise in saying witty things to friends' teenagers that leave them wondering if I have just taken the pißs out of them or not.

If teenagers don't look at their parents with a somewhat pitying look, there's something wrong with them. Doesn't stop them loving them, but if parents try to be down wiv da kidz or their 'best friends', it's just wrong, wrong, wrong. IMHO, of course.

I was actually humbled one time by the parent of a pupil who, in a slightly resigned tone, admitted that I had far more experience of dealing with teenagers than she did, as a parent of them.

I think it's actually healthy that I admit that I inhabit an entirely different cultural space from my pupils. They also are moderately amused by how out-of-touch I am with any up-to-date cultural stuff and that it doesn't bother me in the least.

 

[briantrumpet]

Unprecedented.

Put it in your scrapbook.

 

[First Aspect]

Put it in your scrapbook.

He just resents that I'm right all the time.

 

[First Aspect]

If teenagers don't look at their parents with a somewhat pitying look, there's something wrong with them. Doesn't stop them loving them, but if parents try to be down wiv da kidz or their 'best friends', it's just wrong, wrong, wrong. IMHO, of course.

I was actually humbled one time by the parent of a pupil who, in a slightly resigned tone, admitted that I had far more experience of dealing with teenagers than she did, as a parent of them.

I think it's actually healthy that I admit that I inhabit an entirely different cultural space from my pupils. They also are moderately amused by how out-of-touch I am with any up-to-date cultural stuff and that it doesn't bother me in the least.

I always figure I've been both young and old, whereas they've never been old. I think this gives me an advantage.

 

[briantrumpet]

I always figure I've been both young and old, whereas they've never been old. I think this gives me an advantage.

Right up to the time when you're dead and they aren't, which gives them a bit of an advantage at that point.

 

[First Aspect]

Unprecedented.

Is this you doing a 6-7?

 

[First Aspect]

Right up to the time when you're dead and they aren't, which gives them a bit of an advantage at that point.

Yes, but I had a head start.

 

[briantrumpet]

He just resents that I'm right all the time.

At least we all have a figure whom we can aspire to be (though I'll skip the living in Cornwall bit, if that's OK).

 

[briantrumpet]

Yes, but I had a head start.

Cheat.

 

[First Aspect]

At least we all have a figure whom we can aspire to be (though I'll skip the living in Cornwall bit, if that's OK).

I am literally 200m from Devon. From what I can see on the other bank, it is qualitatively similar.

 

[briantrumpet]

I am literally 200m from Devon. From what I can see on the other bank, it is qualitatively similar.

So near...

 

[Ian H]

Right up to the time when you're dead and they aren't, which gives them a bit of an advantage at that point.

Advantage over who?

...or what?

 

[Ian H]

I am literally 200m from Devon. From what I can see on the other bank, it is qualitatively similar.

Yebbut West Devon is nearly Cornish. Even the accents.

 

[PurplePenguin]

I was actually humbled one time by the parent of a pupil who, in a slightly resigned tone, admitted that I had far more experience of dealing with teenagers than she did, as a parent of them.

I saw a reddit discussion on a similar topic. Someone asked why teenagers didn't wear coats to school. All the parents gave one response and all teachers gave a different one. My feeling was that the parents were right, so it is, perhaps, not as simple as you make out.

 

[briantrumpet]

I saw a reddit discussion on a similar topic. Someone asked why teenagers didn't wear coats to school. All the parents gave one response and all teachers gave a different one. My feeling was that the parents were right, so it is, perhaps, not as simple as you make out.

Of course it's not that simple, as I don't have to deal with all the shitty bits parents have to cope with 365 days a year. But I do have the advantage over classroom teachers of seeing them one-to-one, often over an extended period, without the 'baggage' of family stuff, so do get quite an insight into their outlook. One time, a parent of an exceptionally articulate but school-phobic pupil said she'd happily pay me double for lessons*, even though the pupil was doing very little playing in her lessons or practice at home.

*I didn't charge her double.