Reply #2: Head teacher for an after school program

[populistmom]

The kids were hard, but the parents were worse. I had an assistant and 30 kids from 1st to 5th grade. As you can imagine 5 year olds and 11 year old like different things so I'd try my best to adapt and do activities that pleased everyone as much as possible. I'd have a handful of parents constantly complaining their children are bored, the program sucked, I sucked, "my kid shouldn't have to listen to you", you name it. Once parent would consistantly pick up her child 1/2 hour late and I'd get no support from the people over me despite all kinds of written policies we were supposed to follow in this type of situation.
After that, I worked with infants and new moms. It fit me a lot better and I gradually decided I was going to go into nursing. Give me poopy diapers and spitup any day over brats from dysfunctional households.