A teenager is someone who can scowl at you even when you knock on the door to tell them you got them a cinnamon roll.

Who does this????

I thought I had a new age spot on my cheek - turned out to be a smear of nutella -win win win!

Maine is being very Maine right now. 60 and foggy at the coast, 80s 1 foot inland

You might think I'm crazy for teaching poetry to middle school kids on the second to last week of school...and actually I'd agree.

Why, why why, do high schools need to divide graduation robe colors by gender?????? This pisses me off to no end!

I have serious leadership fatigue at the end of the school year. I am both really good at being in charge of things and also really tired of it.

I’m rereading a first draft for the first time in a long time and man is it painful. I guess you can’t ever write a perfect first draft? Who knew?

I asked my middle schoolers to list as many poems/poets as they could think of. I didn't expect much but I did not expect them to list, "Here I sit broken-hearted..." as an example.

Ms. Kaufman, I don't want to be a doctor because I don't want to cut open people's ball sacks. Me: I'm pretty sure there are other kinds of doctors you can be if you really want to. I love #teaching the human body unit. #middleschool

Feeling sad that the video of trump's name being ripped off the Kennedy Center is a fake. I still watched it multiple times even after I knew.

Sometimes it's hard to remember that most people are doing the best they can on any given day.

Wow Maine!!! Dime sized hail On may 31st!!!

I had 2 strong drinks on Friday night and I am still recovering?! #middleage

Timeline cleanse- my kiddo and a kiddo

School lunch for an actual child today. Yes, those are donut holes…for the main course

I reread Everything Sad is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri and it’s even better the second time.

w/apologies to WC Williams This is just to say I have taken the Kinder Egg toy You packed in your middle schooler's snack Truly, it was distracting Thank you But no

Because I teach #middleschool my job is to say things like "a stapler is not a toy" multiple times per day. #edusky

Kids don’t put anything back where they found it, unless it’s an empty food box.

This was one of the smarter, better things I heard on the radio today. www.npr.org/2026/05/26/n...

The UFC thing is NOT an Onion headline???!!!!

Handwriting isn’t just “slower typing.” EEG studies show writing by hand recruits broader sensorimotor, visual, memory, and attentional networks than typing the same words. The brain learns through movement too, not only through information. 🧠✍️ #neuroskyence #neuroscience #brain #EEG #words

A long weekend of soccer spectating in the rain, family time/chaos is in the books. I wish I wasn't so exhausted heading into the work week.

Sunset on the highway

Reparations just aren’t feasible unless you’re a felon...

Student: Hey why do you have two bags of chips? Other student: Because it's a free country...or it was... #middleschool

I was complaining to my teen about the way the media treats women as they age and she was like it’s ok mom all your friends are old too!

WTF????

I’m so tired of being told aging is bad or avoidable. When people get old, they age.

It's hot and sticky today in Maine, but at the middle school it's hot, sticky, AND smelly! #teaching

Me: you kids better eat all these cherries! They’re expensive! Also me five minutes later: YOU ATE ALL THE CHERRIES????

Cartoon by @lartist.bsky.social

One photo to prove you have a teenager in the house…

My kid could pick any topic in US history for a research project and she chose the philosophy of the Black Panther movement. I feel I’ve done something right here…

Answers to today’s question - what is something adults think about kids your age that is wrong?

Yup, we've hit that point in the spring where the kids come in every Monday looking as exhausted as if it were Friday -with that look in their eyes that says - dear god let it end already. #teaching #middleschool

Instead of Mother's Day could we just have nurturers day and celebrate all the incredible people in our lives who care and nurture?

Husband and son are making me waffles...so far they've asked for help 6 times and the batter isn't even done...

The hummingbirds are back!!!

This is the only orchid I’ve ever had that bloomed more than once. This is like it’s 5th set of blooms!!!

I think politicians should start wearing sponsor jackets like F1 drivers, so we can see who owns them.

I feel very seen

These beauties got a little beaten up by our weekend monsoon so I rescued them

Usually when I teach the Giver I use VCRs as my example for what the word obsolete means -every year it becomes more and more of a stretch. -"Oh you mean those circle things with movies on them?"

There is something deeply wrong with youth sports culture in this country. It’s like sports pageants

10 minutes to breathe before heading in late on a Friday

"That class was actually kind of good," and other compliments from the #middleschoolers

So true… #BookSky