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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do think it is a teacher thing.  Both my mom (a lifelong teacher) and my sister (a former teacher) do it.  I also have noticed both of them tend to treat the rest of the family as if they are their students and they are the teachers: what they say, GOES.  If you have a different opinion, you are not correct b/c teachers says it is supposed to be this way.  I don't think you are crazy, OP.[/quote]

This is silly. They would likely be that way even if they weren't teachers.  I know plenty of bossy people in professions other than teaching, and I know plenty of teachers who aren't this way.[/quote]

I can see why you'd think that b/c we are in an anonymous forum and you do not know them, but it really is as if they are treating the entire world as if they are the teachers and the world is their classroom, and no one can know better than they.  I am even the oldest sister so, in many ways, AM in fact the most bossy (as oldest kids tend to be) but in say, policy discussions or debates or such around the kitchen table, I'll go back and forth in a measured tone b/c, hey, it is just politics and it is not personal; it is an academic discussion; cerebral; I work with adults; we all have discussions; it's give and take; I may learn something new; you may learn something new; it's an interesting mental exercise.  But sis and mom get very agitated and handle it as if no one is following their lead and tend to raise their raises and handle things in a very simplified, "Because I said so. . " type of way.  Like they are with the children they work with.  When you are discussing things with fellow adults, you cannot simply say the equivalent of, "Because I said so. . ." and raise your voice AND get emotionally upset if no one is "listening" to you or if they come back to you with another thing to consider.[/quote]

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