Andrew Sak
Even Andy Deserves Good BEans
Ooops. Eyebrow/whatever else you need to cut clippers.
They do have eyelash curlers. I'm not sure if men are allowed to use these.
Essential life skills for dudes?
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They do have eyelash curlers. I'm not sure if men are allowed to use these.
Monson
Sonic Automatist
Not sure if this has been mentioned, but how to check out a recipe and put together a grocery list. Or even better, figure out what we're having the next 3-4 days, check out the recipes if/when necessary and put together the grocery list.
In general, how to successfully deal with it when things don't go as planned, because you know, it rarely does 100%.
In general, how to successfully deal with it when things don't go as planned, because you know, it rarely does 100%.
I'm REALLY limited with what I can cook with them. Anything involving knives or heat is a no go but I suppose we could stock up on healthy ish snacks, make salads, smoothies etc...
Resilience is something we absolutely suck at and definitely worth exploring.
Due to their needs I think staff and parents are much more likely to coddle the kids so they seldom experience anything outside their comfort zone and before you know it we've seniors bombing out of college and work experience placements left right and centre because they don't like the instructor or there's new, not very friendly kids there, they don't like getting on the bus etc...
Not exactly setting them up for the real world are we?
I had a kid (one of our more confident ones at that) last week come at me "I'll be in your class later on, I'm not going through (to mainstream school next door) for drama this afternoon."
He loves drama so I pressed him on it and it turns out there would be a cover teacher and he was scared the mainstream kids would act out.
I marched him over there to find out who was covering. Turns out it was a really nice teacher he already knows.
He decides he's going to go after all. I tell him if the kids are messing about he should ignore them or, within reason, given that he's a 16 year old kid, don't take the piss but join in a little, he might make some new friends...
Kid goes, has a great time and thanks me the next morning for "forcing" him to go.
Simple as that but it would have been easier for me or a colleague to just acquiesce and go for a coffee at break instead of walking him over and supporting the kid to do something he was nervous about.
How do you teach resilience to a group in a more classroom like setting is the big question... Need to get my thinking cap on.
Monson
Sonic Automatist
When I was instructing CSPs and tech support I stressed the importance of keeping your cool even when you have no idea what's going on. No shame in that, and how can you possibly when you're new? The goal was not to fix the problem but to stay cool as ice, make the customer feel they're in good hands and then find relevant help (by having a supervisor take over or dictate what's to be done). Maybe there are similar exercises for your target group?
shoeless
Riffin'
...or field dress a deer.
