EP150 How to keep overbearing, micromanaging parents from stressing you out
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2019
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
A listener asks, "How do I stop focusing on parents and worrying how they will affect my job security and my choices as an educator? How can I teach without constantly feeling like I'm being watched, analyzed, judged, and monitored by parents, and/or how can I let go of the fact that they are and I can't change it?"
Join me today as I tackle these listener's questions with a focus on understanding parent mindset and motivation. Truly knowing where the parent is coming is a key step in addressing your mindset so that you can be pro-active and not feel like you're always waiting for the next "attack."
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 150 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. I'm your host |
| 0:06.3 | Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth into the minds |
| 0:11.8 | and hearts of educators and get you energized through the week ahead. |
| 0:15.5 | Today I'm going to talk about how to deal with controlling, overbearing, and micromanaging parents. |
| 0:21.7 | Visit truth for teachers.com to ask a question or to share |
| 0:25.0 | share your thoughts in the comments. |
| 0:27.0 | This episode is brought to you in part by Brainson. |
| 0:30.0 | Have you ever listened to podcasts with your students? |
| 0:33.0 | It's a great way to engage their minds and spark their imagination without relying on screens. |
| 0:39.0 | One great podcast to start with is a kids science show called Brains On. It explores real science |
| 0:44.8 | questions from kids. Students will learn things like how dogs smell so well and |
| 0:49.6 | what water is made of and how human voices make sound. Brainson has over a hundred episodes. |
| 0:56.6 | And you can listen for free to Brainson as well as to a kids history podcast called Forever ago by going to Brainson.org or you can |
| 1:06.4 | subscribe wherever you got your podcasts. So today I'm going to be responding to a listener question that I received. |
| 1:15.0 | At truth for teachers.com, there is a forum where you can submit your questions. |
| 1:19.0 | There's also a link to Speak Pipe where you can leave me a voicemail message which I can then play on the |
| 1:23.9 | podcast and respond to your question. So if there's something you'd like to hear |
| 1:27.9 | me answer in a future episode feel free to submit your question as well. This listener actually wrote in on behalf of her |
| 1:35.4 | colleagues because she was so concerned about them. She described the situation in detail |
| 1:40.8 | and I'm going to read part of it to you because I think you will find it really |
| 1:44.3 | validating to hear that you're not the only one facing situations like this. |
| 1:48.4 | Here's what she wrote. |
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