Dear Daniel,
Next week I will be privileged to become your new Sunbeams teacher. While you might not be aware of class differences in Primary, right now I'm teaching the 5 and 6 year olds. I have been with this same group of kids for over a year now. I won't speak too proudly, but I've been content overall with keeping my cool with this age range. There've been no explosions or embarrassing teacher meltdowns thus far. It's a tough bunch to keep corralled, but they're a very good (and small) group of kids, thankfully.
In general I've had problems with the lesson manuals, and I've attempted to stick with the theme of the scripture noted in the lesson, rather than the endless stories the manual directs me to share to entertain the kids.
Well this week, I got hit with a stomach bug. It's been one of the stronger varieties, and yes, I've used our oils to temper it. But it still kicked my butt horizontal for two days, and you seem to be taking round 2 of it yourself, although only in regards to fevers and runny noses this round. I hope you get better soon.
I'm writing a little sideways, after attempting to find a substitute. I teach five children. One will be out of town. When asking the parents (first) if they could sub, two moms said they've also got sick kids, and won't likely be at church. That left 2 parents. One said she could, but she was also teaching Gospel Doctrine during the 2nd hour. (SUPERMOM.) I told her I would come back to her if I found no one else.
One dad said, and I will quote, "I'm very busy during church." Gee, thanks Dad! What a stellar example of Priesthood in action, stepping up to bat to participate in your awesome son's class, where I've shown up for the last 52+ weeks. Shithead. He's the Sunday School President. My dad is too - at the Stake level. I wonder if he'd be too "busy" to show up for this guy's son.
He may be kidding, but I'm not. It's reasons like this that the Ordain Women movement has taken hold. Priesthood holders, where the hell are you??? Besides decking up when it's time to show up for a Priesthood blessing in the middle of the night, what do you do to show up for your families? Your kids? I cannot ever get one man to sub for my class, including my own husband -- who by the way, is supposed to be my "co-teacher", but asked to be released. Are you too busy chatting it up in the halls during Sunday School, to show up for your kids? (I counted four Priesthood holders enjoying joke hour in the hall last Sunday.) Or too busy making sure all the teachers show up to their classes under your "control" or "jurisdiction"? Maybe you've got hours and hours and hours of endless correlation meetings before church, and organizing your every-night-of-the-week meetings takes up all of church time, so you just can't help out when the Primary teacher gets sick or has another commitment once in a while. This is not what it should be.
Daniel, when you get old enough to be a priest, or a "high priest" at that, show up for your own kids, as well as other kids (especially those who don't have a man for a father), not just in the suit and tie, but when their teacher asks you to help them one damn Sunday out of the year. It's really not that terrible. In fact, I'm growingly confident that I'd rather spend my days with the Primary kids than with many of the lofty adults.
Nobody'd perfect, but "too busy" is a shitty answer. I'll let Jesus judge beyond that. I'll work on my Christian attitude in the meantime. Apparently I'm not perfect yet either.
~Mom<3
Next week I will be privileged to become your new Sunbeams teacher. While you might not be aware of class differences in Primary, right now I'm teaching the 5 and 6 year olds. I have been with this same group of kids for over a year now. I won't speak too proudly, but I've been content overall with keeping my cool with this age range. There've been no explosions or embarrassing teacher meltdowns thus far. It's a tough bunch to keep corralled, but they're a very good (and small) group of kids, thankfully.
In general I've had problems with the lesson manuals, and I've attempted to stick with the theme of the scripture noted in the lesson, rather than the endless stories the manual directs me to share to entertain the kids.
Well this week, I got hit with a stomach bug. It's been one of the stronger varieties, and yes, I've used our oils to temper it. But it still kicked my butt horizontal for two days, and you seem to be taking round 2 of it yourself, although only in regards to fevers and runny noses this round. I hope you get better soon.
I'm writing a little sideways, after attempting to find a substitute. I teach five children. One will be out of town. When asking the parents (first) if they could sub, two moms said they've also got sick kids, and won't likely be at church. That left 2 parents. One said she could, but she was also teaching Gospel Doctrine during the 2nd hour. (SUPERMOM.) I told her I would come back to her if I found no one else.
One dad said, and I will quote, "I'm very busy during church." Gee, thanks Dad! What a stellar example of Priesthood in action, stepping up to bat to participate in your awesome son's class, where I've shown up for the last 52+ weeks. Shithead. He's the Sunday School President. My dad is too - at the Stake level. I wonder if he'd be too "busy" to show up for this guy's son.
He may be kidding, but I'm not. It's reasons like this that the Ordain Women movement has taken hold. Priesthood holders, where the hell are you??? Besides decking up when it's time to show up for a Priesthood blessing in the middle of the night, what do you do to show up for your families? Your kids? I cannot ever get one man to sub for my class, including my own husband -- who by the way, is supposed to be my "co-teacher", but asked to be released. Are you too busy chatting it up in the halls during Sunday School, to show up for your kids? (I counted four Priesthood holders enjoying joke hour in the hall last Sunday.) Or too busy making sure all the teachers show up to their classes under your "control" or "jurisdiction"? Maybe you've got hours and hours and hours of endless correlation meetings before church, and organizing your every-night-of-the-week meetings takes up all of church time, so you just can't help out when the Primary teacher gets sick or has another commitment once in a while. This is not what it should be.
Daniel, when you get old enough to be a priest, or a "high priest" at that, show up for your own kids, as well as other kids (especially those who don't have a man for a father), not just in the suit and tie, but when their teacher asks you to help them one damn Sunday out of the year. It's really not that terrible. In fact, I'm growingly confident that I'd rather spend my days with the Primary kids than with many of the lofty adults.
Nobody'd perfect, but "too busy" is a shitty answer. I'll let Jesus judge beyond that. I'll work on my Christian attitude in the meantime. Apparently I'm not perfect yet either.
~Mom<3
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