I went through the motions until I was about thirty, and then it just hit me like a two-by-four.
Teachers don't have it that way. Without kids, we're worthless. And very lazy.
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If there's one thing I learned in becoming an adult, it's that adults don't act like adults, at least not like the way we were taught as kids: responsible caring people who support one another. That's the ideal, but not the reality.