...good point, Glasheen Sensei.

A paradigm shift is a good thing. Rather than work on the offending party, work on your reaction response.

Good luck with your dilemma.

Corn Maiden

Another radical thing you could do (if your are fast enough and bold enough) is to park right behind that person to block them in and then call the police while he cannot get out.

Some one I know caught a woman at her house with her husband during day hours and did that. She blocked her car, came ...

How about a brightly colored memo note placed under the offending person's windshield, letting them know you would appreciate them being courteous to those needing the 2 parking places...followed by letting him know you have his license and have no qualms reporting it to the proper authorities ...

Good comment, Glen. I agree with that age for spankings to be understood.

My thoughts:

* Spank when necessary, life/death or serious situations.
* Mete out punishment when you have calmed down and are not angry.
* Explain the moral reason the offense is wrong.
* Make the punishment proportionate ...

I believe 'Mother' nature is going through, possibly menopause in your yard. Those terribly, hormonal women. What are you going to do? Can't live with them and can't live without them.

Seriously, so sorry to hear about your yard. Hope you can fix those problems on both fronts, Glasheen Sensei ...

Aaaah, it must be a female/woman...and she must have been really mad, per your choice of imagery.

Interesting pic.

Corn Maiden

Some how there must be a win/win answer so you both may benefit.

Underwhelmed? Did you not get any good ideas to act on?

How do you know you offended them? Sure he/she/they were not just having a bad period of time? Work problems, his/her team lost, had a fight with significant other, or didn't ...

You know, Glasheen Sensei, if you are frustrated teaching students 'that don't get it', more than likely those same students are are aware of that. They probably feel the same way, thus are equally frustrated over the fact they cannot learn this and do not please you.

The image below could very ...

Glasheen Sensei,

Maybe there are stumbling blocks intellectually, mentally, emotionally, or physically with those particular students that need to be addresssed.

Are there 'issues' with these students, slow learners, Dyslexia, etc. If slow learners, sometimes you have to dummy down things more ...

Understood. I noticed your tremendous frustration over your present students. That picture you posted stuck out in my mind (leading a horse to water), especially ones you had been teaching that are regressing. Maybe they had personal issues going on in their lives, or some learning disabilities, in ...

...and then, maybe you could hand-pick the students of your choice so not to make your brain crazy like the ones that drive you nuts now, possibly.

Maybe you could convince some of those bright, cream of the crop ones to come and teach. I refer to the ones you mentioned earlier that you taught at ...

Let me clarify that remark, Mr. Glasheen, should it be misconstrued.

Bill said:

There is one problem though that is about to drive me to drinking.

Cornmaiden said:

I can offer you a corkscrew, Mr. Glasheen.

...no tongue in cheek intended.
Cornmaiden

I can't make someone do something they don't want to do.

I can offer you a corkscrew, Mr. Glasheen.

Cornmaiden

My suggestion would be to start drinking...heavily, unless you believe you can indeed teach an old (or younger) dog new tricks.

What would you do with your dog? I remember reading that you had one.

Corn Maiden

All of us learn differently, be it book smarts, impirical learning, or just raw natural intelligence. All of us have seen people that were incredibly smart, intellectually, but missing the boat when it came to common sense or emotional sense/awareness. It amazes me how one can be so skewed in their ...