Author: Lila

Should kids be allowed to have personal cell phones and tablets in school?

100% NO!! If you need to get a hold of your child, call the office and they will relay the message to them at the appropriate time. They are in class; learning and don’t need any interruptions, they have enough of them. Or better yet, call or text them on their break. Even if you expect them to wait and check their phones at break once they feel the buzz or see the notification they just can’t help but stop and check it. You think they may have control but they don’t. They are addicted to their devices and your flagrant floating of the rules makes it hard to enforce our cell phone policies. Kids do not need the extra screen time they have enough. One time a kid told me he is on his phone 18 hours a day.. WTF! Also, the amount of cyberbullying and privacy violations are insane! (This prompt definitely hit a nerve!!) It is sort of fitting that I am responding to this prompt now; considering that the provinces of Ontario and British Columbia have made moves to quash phones at school –we shall see how it all shakes out.

What about you?

Prompt from: Piccadilly’s 200 Writing Prompts

Is there a mistake you keep making repeatedly in your daily life? Explain.

All human beings are so flawed. I make many mistakes all the time but I try and learn and I try to  be better. I have a few poor choices that I make often…

-Committing to an exercise or weight loss program which I fail at often; knowing full well they aren’t a good fit.
-Taking on too much and not asking for help.
-Holding onto negative feelings.
-Not following through on plans because I’m afraid to do them alone.
-Not saving more for retirement but telling myself I’ll fix it next year, this also applies to going to the doctor.

What about you?

Prompt from: Piccadilly’s 200 Writing Prompts

What would you like said about you at your funeral?

I don’t want a funeral, rather I simply want to be cremated and have my loved ones pick up the remains and scatter them in a beautiful location. No fuss, no muss! Then perhaps they could have a fire and a little BBQ and just hang out, but nothing formal. However, I would like my former students to remember or know that I cared very deeply for each and every one of them and that I enjoyed being their teacher. I’d like my family to create a yearly award for a student that could be given out every year. I’m not sure what the criteria for it would be but I just want to forever keep giving back. (This is a pretty morbid prompt for 6:30 in the morning, btw!)

What about you?

Prompt from: Piccadilly’s 200 Writing Prompts

What requires your patience today?

I woke up feeling off, I think I’m coming down with a bug. I went to bed with a bit of a headache. So basically today I think most things, especially the most mundane and ordinary will require a lot of patience. I’d rather just snuggle under my weighted blanket and sleep longer or read a book. I even had the whole “girl versus hair” monologue today. I really needed to wash my dirty hair (which is on day number FOUR) but the thought of “all that work”  irked me and I was rolling my eyes in the shower. That right there tells me I am going to have to make a very conscious choice and be deliberate in my actions today to show patience.

What about you?

Prompt from Piccadilly’s 200 Writing Prompts