Christmas break anyone? It’s finally arrived. Has it felt like a super long year so far? If you are sitting reluctantly at the computer still, wishing you were “done,” this post is for you. Readers, please pass this on to coworkers who may also be hunkered down working. Let’s all stand up for our own version of nap time.
You only get so many winter breaks. If you have children at home, they only share breaks with you for a while — and then they are gone. They can’t always come home. My husband and I will zoom on Christmas, but we will open our presents alone.
Be kind to yourself. The lesson on mitosis, the Battle of Shiloh, or two-step equations can be fine-tuned later – later, like the midnight before your presentation, if strictly necessary.
This is a time for cheese fries, trips to the comic book store, huddling under blankets to rewatch “Home Alone,” complete with cinnamon cocoa, and whatever other special family rituals you celebrate. Don’t let work eat away at your own special rituals.
You deserve a break today. And tomorrow. And the day after that. In fact, you deserve to take the rest of 2021 off entirely.
(If you believe working now will improve your life later, then I suppose a teacher’s gotta do what a teacher’s gotta do. Still, reader, I’ve seen admin blow up the curriculum and render those preplanned lessons worthless. I’ve also been moved from one school and grade to another school and grade mid-year. These are excruciatingly complicated times! With all the resignations going on right now, I recommend living in the present.)
