When students send me emails in which they refer to Klara as “a bundle of joy”, I have to battle the temptation to slip into the sour teacher mode and start repeating my lecture about the use of clichés.
I miss teaching.
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Yeah, readers should just refer to her as a bouncing baby.
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And an apple of my eye.
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Aww. If your students get too idiosyncratic with baby epithets, they run the risk of puzzling or annoying you.
How’s Klara handling her nail clipping sessions?
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After a colleague shared with me how she’d accidentally snipped off part of her baby’s finger, there’s no chance I’ll be trying to do it. I’m using a baby nail file. Not very successfully, by the way.
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If I can clip my cat’s claws without hurting or upsetting her, you can probably do the same to Klara.
🙂
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You need to share that secret with us all?!?!
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