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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a teacher, and a parent.  I think that in some ways I've gotten worse from having kids.  I have a little less energy, I'm out more, I put less thought into the details of the bulletin boards and the anchor thoughts.

I also think that in some ways I've gotten better from having kids.  I assign less "mommy homework", and I think I communicate better with parents.

One thing I have come to understand deeply as a parent that I never got when I was just a teacher, was the way that a family's culture and parenting is something cut from a whole cloth.  I used to think that because I did something in the classroom with a child, and it worked a certain way, parents could just pick up that one piece and do the same thing.  I now know that parenting techniques, and classroom management techniques work best if they're consistent with your family or classroom culture as a whole, and I'm both less judgemental about other people's choices, and less likely to think that I know the solutions to other people's parenting challenges.[/quote]

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