Adventures in Parenting

We know that kids say and do the darnedest things. Phillip Done has captured them from his years of experience as a 3rd grade teacher in his book 32 Third Graders and One Class Bunny – Life Lessons from Teaching.

If you’ve ever wondered how in the world a teacher survives 6 hours a day, 5 days a week, with 32 kids, … and a bunny,… Done gives you the inside scoop from the teacher’s perspective. With just the right mix of humor and wisdom, Done shares the true essence of being an elementary school teacher.

Here is a small sample of Done’s life as a veteran teacher:

- fixes staplers that won’t staple, zippers that won’t sip, and pokes pins int the caps of glue bottles

- he has sung “happy Birthday ” 657 times

- he can spell vacuum; he knows the magic word

- he has every teacher mug that Hallmark ever made

- he calls on children whose hands are not raised

My 8th-grade daughter read a few pages of the book and laughs, “That’s exactly how my teachers are and that’s exactly what third graders are like!”

For a good laugh and some poignant lessons about life with kids, get Phillip Done’s book 32 Third Graders and One Class Bunny – Life Lessons from Teaching, available on his website, and from Amazon.

And if you ever talk to Phillip Done, just ask him, “So, what’s that about your tie while you were laminating?”

(This is a book review, not a paid advertisement.)