When I recently landed an awesome full-time teaching position, I have to admit, I was worried that working with kids all day would wipe me out and negatively affect my parenting at the end of the day. I thought about how I would spend five days a week from 8:15 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. teaching acting to kids who range from kindergarteners to eighth-graders, then come home too tired to get my own kids to do homework, get bathed and ready for bed.
I'm not going to lie to you; the night routine pre-teaching was already challenging for a single mom with two small kids, especially when I have to focus on my 9-year-old's endless homework while entertaining a 5-year-old. So all I could imagine on my first day was hell.
But much to my surprise, the opposite has happened. The tools that make for a successful teaching day, when implemented at home, have been making my nights run amazingly.
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