Hello, returning teachers of the world!  As usual, I've been doing those pre-start workshops (loaded with teachers desperately needing to be working in their rooms). Mostly, I've been talking about what you can do to manage stress while in a potentially (Did I just say POTENTIALLY?) loaded with stress.  While I was on the road, I ...

It's easy to let stress take over and control our daily lives. A post by Laura Milligan titled 101 Ways to Cope with Teaching Stress caught my eye this morning, and I'm glad it did.  Wow!  There are so many great ideas and links for reducing stress on this post that I am bookmarking it so that I can go back and try something new each ...

Splatypus’s comment about my last post got me thinking about the days when I taught kindergarten in one high-poverty school after another. Kindergarten can be high-stress for a teacher.  And not just because her students are living in poverty and have all the problems that go with poverty.  Kindergarten can be high-stress because ...

This morning on Court TV (TruTV), a discussion was going on concerning violence which ends up with people being in prison.  The recommendation at the close was--no kidding--that teachers should teach ''anger management'' classes for all their students. One more time, the causes are ignored and teachers are given responsibility for civilizing ...

  Okay, so . . . A Great Relationship in One Month Family, Psychology, Relationships, anxiety, self esteem, self help, stress Comments (0)   I’ve been working on a workbook on practical things a person can do to improve her relationship.  Practical strategies that don’t require years of therapy or trial by error which makes ...

   Of course, accounting, lawyering, writing, business, and carpentry can be harmful, too.  But mounting research points to the reality that the school environment combined with requirements and expectations on the job, sets teachers up as vulnerable targets for stress.      It's not ...

         ''If you don't take life seriously, it's not worth living.  .  . If you ONLY take life seriously, it's not worth living.'' The beginning:  You will be changed by the career you have chosen.  You are changed dramatically over the span of your career and you are changed a little ...

   Many of you I met during presentations made from The Special Educator:   STRESS    and SURVIVAL.       We had a lot of fun with that and it's still floating around in the caverns of Amazon, though I gave up royalties many years ago.     As requested I'm going to ...

I'm going to figure out a way to feed my other blog to this one.  Until then you can get updates at MysteryShrink.com.  

  Hmmm . . . Which One of these Stories Should I Take as Reality?      Which one should I pay attention to?  Which one should I should I burn into my memory?      A recent auto insurance ad (paraphrased)—       Wife to her husband:  “I do everything around here ...