Health e-teacher

Parents, Here is another opportunity for you to earn extra points for your child. We have just finished discussing contraception (feel free to discuss with your child what we talked about. I’d love to know if they were paying attention) and we are now going to focus on Child development from conception to young adult hood. We will then move on to parenting. To prepare for parenting, I’d like you to share your thought about parenting. Answer as many questions as you feel comfortable with. Again there are no wrong answers.
1. What is the hardest part about parenting?
2. Do you feel that it is hypocritical, when a parent tells their child not to do something that they might have done when they were a child?
3. What age did/do you enjoy parenting the most?
4. What was the best advice you received about parenting?
5. What was the worst advice you received about parenting?
Be sure to let me know whose child is yours are when responding. First name and last initial will suffice. Thank you for participating.

The other day we had our second annual (and hopefully, not last) “Stuff the Staff” basketball game to support our Girls Basketball programs. The next day in class some of my students made comments about my basketball skills. By the way, I don’t have any! I missed four shots and made about a billion turnovers. But that was not what bugged me. I had fun. One student said that he was talking to a friend about how fast I was. His friend replied, “of course he is, he is the health teacher.” First of all, being fast does not necessarily have a lot to do with being healthy. But, what people don’t understand is that I would choose to look after my health even if I wasn’t a health teacher. My wife doesn’t teach health and she gets up most mornings at 5:00 am to work out. And no, I do not make her do it. That is not in my pre nup. I only kid about that. I would get up in the morning to work out if I was a Math teacher, or a Science teacher, or an English teacher or a custodian or a hall monitor, or a Principal. I get up in the morning because that is when I can fit it in and it is that important. I choose to be healthy so that I can enjoy my life more, not less. I do not miss out on anything. I still eat the occasional junk food. I have a glass of wine with dinner. (I’m over 21, and one glass a day is good for your heart) But I do try to see the bright side of things. It is good that this student expects his health teacher to be healthy.(Does he have that expectation for all his teachers?) Maybe by the end of the year he’ll have the expectation to be healthy when he is my age……..25.

Well, I thought I ‘d try this blogging stuff. If Mr. J can do it, so can I. I thought I would use this blog to post assignments, communicate with parents, but also to communicate with other health teachers. As you may know (or not) I am the Health Department at Gowanda Central schools. I often have ideas that I would like to try out in class but I do not have another health teacher to bounce it off of. I might even do another blog if I end up using this more to communicate with colleagues. Well here is the first one.