Do you play "this child with that child's parents?"

[Fuzzymum1]

Do you find yourself wondering how different a child would be if they had a different child's parents? I think most kids would be completely different with different parents and sometimes I wish I could see how different they would be :D

No, but have played the game of working out which boy/girl combination would produce the offspring we'd least like to teach...

What sort of parents do you like? I'm never sure whether I go in and show too much interest, or not enough!

What about the ones who email you to apologise when their Y8 child is too sick to come to school the day of an exam for your subject??? Didn't want to come across as anything other then interested and supportive...DH thought it a little OTT!!!

Not a teacher, but I'd love to swap the boy who bullied DDs parents for some who didn't think picking on someone just because they are different is OK.

I've run into him since they went to separate high schools. He's a nice lad, just not given any appropriate boundaries.

I'd love to turn a friend of DDs parents into nice people not social climbing snobs.

Then friend could become a DF and come to tea etc.

The DD has been pushed away from the rest of the village by her DM being a bit of a trigger mum and I don't think it's made her DD happy.

tiger mum

I have thought 'What this child needs is a change of parent' on occasion.
Usually when a child isn't appreciated for what they are, rather than what their parents want them to be.