What are you good at?
I have worked on this skill most of my life. It coincides with my ability to be annoying and make terrible jokes.
Whether it is an impromptu lecture on the stock market, a unwanted Socratic Seminar on the Trump Trial, or treating my spouse as a student. I can get under family members skin in no time at all.
If someone hasn’t had to tell me to shut the hell up before breakfast, I feel like a subpar history teacher and parent. After I grade my kids on their chores, but before mandatory reading enrichment time, sometimes I think maybe I am going a little too extreme on this whole “my dad is a history teacher” thing, but then I remember kids kind of have to do what I say, after all, it is all for their benefit, right?
Field trip days are especially fun. I have to gently “motivate” my kids by threatening them with no internet time, so they will get in the car. Then off we go to the amazing cultural centers around Los Angeles from open to close with no lunch break. It is absolutely wonderful! Everyone has such a positive attitude at the end of the day that as soon as we get home, they immediately go to their room and don’t talk to me anymore. I assume they are looking up questions that they had from our exciting day!
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What are your thoughts on this?