ABSTRACT
Teachers often espouse to treat their students as if they were their own children. Many teachers are parents themselves. However, this claim goes out the window when a student is not cooperating. It is easy to think of all of the strategies that we may have implemented to help with the student before we finally contact home. As a result, often our phone calls and emails can betray our exhaustion. It is so important to remember that the students’ parents are not surrounded by other teenagers all day and are not at their “limit” with certain behaviors. When corresponding with parents, remember the ideology of treating students like your own kids. Imagine the email you would want to read from your child's teacher on the day that they may have acted out of character or failed to live up to your expectations. Never, ever, condescend to a parent or speak only in a negative way about another person's child. Ever.
