SO... my daughter started school wednsday. The day before we went to her school to take the heaping bags of supplies and for her to meet her teacher. We have never made it to an open house since she has been in public school, we just did not know when they were.
Anyways... I think this teacher will be the teacher to break her! Yep... daughter has a talking problem... and she will not shut up or even stop talking if you tell her to be quiet. She will still have to get what she was saying out of her mouth. Then daughter will also repeat stuff to you, even if you are right in her face staring at her and do not answer her.
The first teacher she had in 1st grade was a new teacher she just started teaching. My daughter ran all over her and kept getting into trouble for talking and the like. Then her 2nd grade teacher she was a vetern teacher and she laid the smackdown on my daughter. We hardly heard anything from the teacher about daughters excessive talking. Then the 3rd grade teacher, yep you guessed it, daughter ran all over her too. Daughters behavior report for every week would say "Excessive talking".
Now, this teacher she has this year, seems like she will be like the 3rd grade teacher daughter had. The teacher has 4 kids of her own and they are all boys and under 14 years old. SO... I am sure this teacher will not let my daughter run all over her.
I told her teacher of her excessive talking and how she does not know how to be quiet when told to be quiet and how she will still try to get what she was trying to say to come out of her mouth. Her teacher said, "well, looks like she will be doing a lot of invisible chairs out in the hallway!"
I was like "wooooo... that is ruff!" Then daughter asked what the invisible chair was and her daddy told her about it. I was like she will be doing that quite a lot this year. Her teacher said "Either she will learn from it, or she will have some nice quad muscles by the end of the year." I said yeah... I think she will be muscular by end of school year. Her teacher just laughed.
Maybe this year, my daughter will grow a little and not have excessive talking. Last year I know she was bored with the work, because she already knew it and it was just a "waste" of her time, as she put it. But this year she is in the gifted program so... maybe she will not get so bored with this years school work.
Soo.... I am hoping this teacher will be the one to break my daughter from her excessive talking and make her listen more instead of always being the one yapping.
Joonie -
OMG - she sounds like my daughter! Good luck - we both need it!
Pip
Oh... she got in trouble today LOL! I asked her if she got in trouble today, and she said yes. I said for what? Talking? She said "yes, but I was talking to the teacher." I just shook my head. I said what did you have to talk to her about? She said I was asking questions about somethings. I was like you talk and ask too many questions. I told her welp, tomorrow was a new day, for her to get in trouble for talking LOL! My hubby comes up behind our daughter and flaps his hand like he's a talking puppet when she's going on and on about something - usually something she saw on TV. We now no longer let her talk about TV shows - kept telling her we'd listen if it was about her day or something 'real' but not if it were TV. It took about a month, but now she'll talk about that just to keep talking.
Pip
I too have children who were always labeled as being too "social". I always told the teachers to nip it in the bud right away. Move their seat, send them to the principal, call me. It's like you say some can rule with an iron hand and some let them walk all over them. It's usually the young, new teachers that can't handle them. I feel sorry for my daughter who will be teaching 11th grade Language Arts for the first time this year. I told her "Remember your brothers!".
[QUOTE=joonie]Oh... she got in trouble today LOL! I asked her if she got in trouble today, and she said yes. I said for what? Talking? She said "yes, but I was talking to the teacher." I just shook my head. I said what did you have to talk to her about? She said I was asking questions about somethings. I was like you talk and ask too many questions. I told her welp, tomorrow was a new day, for her to get in trouble for talking LOL! [/QUOTE]
LOL - my little one has trouble behaving... he's quite mischievous at times. I usually get calls about once a month. And I'm on the school board...
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