I hate this. I feel that tight feeling in my chest and my thoughts are starting to go around in circles. I don't want this to happen. I want to be able to stop it. I feel it coming but I am not totally sure how to divert it. The thoughts are about the ignorant lady that I talk about in "Hurt feelings" and how much I hate my son's PE teacher. I even told my son that she is a *****. Not something I normally say about teachers but this woman made my daughter believe that she is unathletic so now she doesn't want to try new things because she is afraid she will look stupid and now this woman is starting to do the same thing to my son. She tells the kids what failures they are when they can't reach her expectations. She demoralizes them by saying things like "that is a 2nd grade skill level" when she is talking to 5th graders. She is an awful witch. I tried on several occasions to discuss this with her but got no where. This time I am going to try to go through the school counselor. Maybe she can help mediate or at least explain things better without resorting to foul names. It just makes me so mad. I have tried to explain to them that in every person's life one meets up with total *****es and one just has to shrug them off and move on. So here I am trying to explain this to my son at the same time I am hurting on the inside because of what "T" said to me at lunch. Argh! I am such a hippocrite sometimes...OK all the time when it comes to following my own advice. Makes me think of The Violent Femmes song "America, the home of the hippocrite." I Know! I will go turn on the Violent Femmes and listen to them real loud. That will make me feel better.
Carrie

<font color=green>Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.--Emily Dickenson