Sounds like everything’s turning up Milhouse for you

eee! this is great :)

🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻for you mate! Also 🎉 for your bloke!

Good luck for your interview! Proximity always helps, make sure you play that one up in the interview.

Fuck yeah!!!

Sounds like great news.

Everything is working out!

good news 😊 You both deserve this so much

That’s so cute!!

very nice 🙂

I haven’t gone to the beach yet to see stars, I hope it will be nice. Can’t be as bad as all the light pollution I saw in the inner city.

I’m the same, I go into doing the new thing mode

the thing is, i get told/implication , is that their thing is both urgent and important , so the feeling of urgency gets me every time.

anyone with an ounce of self awareness would never want you to drop what you are doing

I wonder if the habit of people expecting messages returned near instantly has bled into other aspects of life

Ah, I was out of the loop. Loved him in Top Secret, 11yo me thought it was the funniest thing ever. RIP man.

he was so young too 😔

So sad.

You’ll always be remembered Iceman.

NOOOO 😭😭😭

He played my favourite character in Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

Tbh I love him in everything he’s done!

Vale Val

I liked his role in The Salton Sea.

Hell yeaaaah get dat pizza!

That feels a bit like an optical illusion, cool!

thank you guys 🙂

it reminds me of a fingerprint

Excellent photo!

It’s hard, for sure. I experimented with lots of stuff. There was an aquarium DVD with soft dreamy classical music that was mesmerising, and I used to play it before bed. It went for about 45 minutes and came to signal “bedtime” when it was over. They loved that until it stopped working and I never found a replacement :( I found a bath before bed was a no go, as they seemed refreshed and revitalised by it and were actually harder to get to settle. I also experimented with lavender oil spray (not the aerosol one, it doesn’t smell nice) on the soft furnishings in the room or the straight oil on a cloth hanging near the bed, and lavender scented baby massage lotions administered via soothing back rub. I had night lights which cast patterns of slowly circling stars and moons or rippling water patterns on the roof. All of these things worked to varying degrees. Elder turned out to be a “rain noises and mood lighting” kinda guy. In the end Miniest was having none of it. Nothing but my presence would put her to sleep. I’d put her in her bed and go to mine, only to wake up later and find she’d snuck in during the night and fallen asleep with her foot touching my leg so she’d know I was there. Sometimes I’d carry her sleeping form back to her bed a few times, only to find each time she’d woken up and snuck back lol. It was destroying both our sleep so in the end I just gave up and allowed it. It’s so hard sometimes, finding their little bedtime thing. No advice to offer really but boy do I hear you! I hope you find your Tiniest’s bedtime something and your sanity and sleep doesn’t suffer!

When I was a kid I’d resist bed time because I didn’t really feel safe that far away from my family. Once my parents went to bed that end of the house was safe, but when they were still up my bedroom felt very isolated. And the same thing happened in the morning - my sister and I would usually bring our clothes to the lounge room to get changed rather than be alone in our rooms.

If it is something like that he might be able to sleep closer to you and then move (or be moved) when you all go to bed? Or maybe if you have baby monitor you could set that back up so he feels more secure?

We’ve been doing things to wear the boys out before bed. We have a beanbag we get them to run into, let them jump on the bed singing ‘Monkeys on the bed’ then do these muscle massages and books.

They don’t need to do all of those before bed now and they’re falling asleep a lot easier

He doesn’t want to miss out on the party all parents have when kids go to bed.

story time

that looks great 🙂

you can do this 💐

Even people who have gotten their degree and have taught still can have horrible years.

Infact at work I’m seeing it live with a new teacher who has had a number of years under her belt already.

You are there to learn and experience these things and to learn from your mistakes, just because it didn’t work out the first time doesn’t meant it’s all doom and gloom.

I don’t have anything valuable to offer

This is not true. Teaching is not easy but the skills (and patience) you’ve learnt will cross over to anything and everything you decide to do.

Lots to unpack here for yourself. Don’t make any decisions until you’ve had a chance to breathe and mull over for a few days. It almost sounds like you got overwhelmed on the day, went into panic mode, felt like a failure and that the only solution was to quit immediately. Maybe teaching is your path and worth pursuing, or maybe it isn’t. The student behaviour issues are very real and lots of teachers struggle. But lots also feel it’s rewarding despite the challenges.Take some time, talk to people around you, see what you feel like after the adrenaline has settled. No one is perfect at something first time they do it.

A friend of mine felt a bit the same, “why did I do this/what the hell have I done?” Until she got a job teaching English to adult students overseas. She just had to explore the options a bit more and find something that suited her. Maybe you’ve got to explore a bit more to find your “zone”?

Low, you are there to learn and get experience, of course you don’t know everything on the first day.

I suggest you listen to your mentor.

And don’t be so easily put off. You can do this.

I have never considered teaching, and nor have I ever wanted to. But, I will say, if you’re not feeling it anymore with your course, then don’t push yourself any more into doing it; you’ll resent it and your brain will use it against you. You already seem really burnt out by the course, and people can’t push through burn out without a break.

Drop out or defer (if you can), and take a mental health break, go for more walks (if you can), get in touch with your hobbies and interests, friends even or a club. Then, look through the list of gov funded/free TAFE courses and see if any pique your interest. If you like building relationships with and helping young people, you could look into youth services courses instead. But don’t get ahead of yourself, look after your present self.

Also,

Said by someone who tried to push through burn out in a call centre and ended up in the ER twice. Also a partner to someone who tried to do the same.

I am ready to become even more of a piece of scum in society as I don’t have anything valuable to offer.

Nope nah no way. This line of thought isn’t going to help you, I promise. You DO have something valuable to offer to society, because you are human; this particular job just doesn’t align with you in the way you thought and THAT’S OKAY!!! It is so okay, it is normal. You wouldn’t be a scum of society by getting on centrestink or anything, you just need a break to figure out what does align to your values!

Look, don’t blame yourself. Teaching is hard and I see teachers online talking about how the current crop of kids are more difficult to handle.

There’s definitely other options for working with young people that isn’t like that

That last sentence is the key. You got this.

Any particular subreddits that tick you off?

I 100% agree.

I couldn’t give a flying fuck that you can’t decide on what is, most of the time, a very obvious and popular position.

Your faux contrarian position is incredibly transparent. You aren’t special because you have a quarter of a braincell.

You’ve hit on one of my pet peeves. Attention seeking behaviour.

Different brand tablets have different compositions. A good brand will have ingredients like buffers that help you digest and absorb the active ingredient.

So yes, brand names usually are better.