I bought an Omega Speedmaster for my 60th.

Flying back from Paris to Dublin with family, took watch off to change the time.

Kid: What you doing?
Me: changing the time.
Kid: it doesn’t change automatically like my phone?
Me: No.

I decided to wind the watch.

Kid: what you doing?
Me: winding up my watch
Kid: What?
Me: <explains spring movement>
Kid: like my toy car? How much was the watch?

Makes you think!

#omega #speedmasterprofessional #speedmaster #kidsthesedays #kids

#MarALago #FWakeMarALago #Florida #Grandparents

1. Aren't #WiseElders supposed to take care #Grandchildren ?

2. #KidsTheseDays have #Elderly #FoxNewsCrazy #voters #voting for #Epstein Florida ?

3. Epstein Island for our little kiddies? Vote Epstein? Wise elders?

#HateYourChildren Fox News media

I find I am often torn between wanting to support students no matter the level they have achieved and wanting to clearly enforce consequences for failure to meet minimum expectations.
Especially when I see they constantly self soothe on their phones, with chatter, with distractions, I find my empathy levels drop.
The awareness of neurodivergence is important, but the expectation that it’s an all encompassing excuse for not completing assignments is hard to work with.

I do give them the accommodations of sound cancelling headphones ( so then they distract from focus with watching movies), working in a separate space ( and then more people sit with them and start chatting).
And I have to mark what I see but they react as if it’s unfair that they get a failing mark for not completing the work.
Sigh….
#justRanting #teacherlife
#kidsTheseDays

🐺 Juvenile delinquent wolf pup wrecks park property - probably will not even get probation. Video evidence 📹

https://www.discovermagazine.com/watch-a-mischievous-wolf-pup-run-off-with-a-park-sign-in-yellowstone-national-park-49000

#KidsTheseDays #WildlifeWednesday #YellowstoneNP #Wolf #Wolves #Wildlife

Last day of classes with my 2nd year group today - making them “Sign My Sleeve” as they complete their final practical exam with me.
They were to research and design their own version of a French cuff and make it using as many #hautecouture techniques as possible < I am allowing machine sewn buttonholes >.

Some have done lovely work, some are ready to just be done with all this finessed hand sewing stuff…
#kidsthesedays #slowFashion #sewing #teacherlife

Looking through paper exams. Doing my basic grading thing, which includes marking in a way that is tamper-resistant in case of after-the-fact grade modifications. Then I realized I have not seen any evidence of this for a few years. I used to reliably get maybe one student a year who would bring back a marked paper and try to claim I had counted points wrong when they had actually changed marks. Nobody does that anymore. The children have forgotten the lore of the previous generations.

#professor #grading #KidsTheseDays

Chappell Roan – The Subway