I'd like to step aware from prepping for a minute and talk Medicinal

[Uncle Albert]

I wanted to share something with everybody that I can't take credit for nor can I understand why it works. What do you do to cure hiccups? Honey on a spoon, holding your breath, breathing into a paper sack? I ran across something that works every single time for me and everybody I have showed it to. Unless you have some medical condition that causes your hiccups I'm sure this will work for you.
I take a coffee cup and fill it with drinking water, I put a metal piece of flatware into the cup, usually a butter knife. I press the flat side of the knife to my temple as I drink all the water in the cup. When I'm done, the hiccups are gone. It works every single time for me and I don't know why. I'm not a physiologist nor any kind of oligist but it works for me and my friends.
Try it and tell me what your results are.

 

[old_anorak]

When I get the hiccoughs I'll reset the pace of my breathing. Breathe out count to five, breathe in count to five, and repeat. I was told by a nurse that it gives the diaphragm a chance to stop the jerking and get back into a regular rhythm.

 

[Bravery]

Yes, those methods work wonders! When I was teaching and a student saying that they needed a Hall Pass to get some water to stop the hiccups. I would just look at them and tell them that I ashamed of them for wanting to get out of my class to meet up with some guy or girl. They would then tell me that they really do have the hiccups... I would say "yeah sure..." I would tell them to look at me in the eyes and hiccup. They never could... not in 15 years of teaching.

 

[old_anorak]

I had a teacher that would do that. Have you ever had the hiccoughs so bad that they hurt? I hate those.

 

[jayjay1]

Cure for hiccups - 100% guarantee. Put your head in a bucket of water 3 times & pull it out twice. My dad told us this when we were young - we had VERY wet heads!!!

 

[Mike Quinn]

you cheated jayjay ,you drank some of the water lol

 

[Uncle Albert]

Yes, those methods work wonders! When I was teaching and a student saying that they needed a Hall Pass to get some water to stop the hiccups. I would just look at them and tell them that I ashamed of them for wanting to get out of my class to meet up with some guy or girl. They would then tell me that they really do have the hiccups... I would say "yeah sure..." I would tell them to look at me in the eyes and hiccup. They never could... not in 15 years of teaching.

I've talked to so many teachers who say that the profession is not a long term thing anmore. They got burned out early, what with the attitudes of students and parents and the politics controlling their working environment. Fifteen years is a long time nowadays.

 

[bill harrell]

Believe it or not ...Ripley...my wife is an English teacher. She will kill me if she knew I told y'all. I'm like her greatest failure in life. But, I'm still the greatest at something. She retired last Friday after about 25 years. Not so much because of the kids ( she even loves the ones that can levitate and spin their heads backwards and spray green vomit.) It was just the bueracracy . I guess my grammer is a full time project. And the plus side.....I'm in love with my teacher. And its an appropriate relationship, been awhile since you heard that huh.

 

[Dani]

Believe it or not ...Ripley...my wife is an English teacher. She will kill me if she knew I told y'all. I'm like her greatest failure in life. But, I'm still the greatest at something. She retired last Friday after about 25 years. Not so much because of the kids ( she even loves the ones that can levitate and spin their heads backwards and spray green vomit.) It was just the bueracracy . I guess my grammer is a full time project. And the plus side.....I'm in love with my teacher. And its an appropriate relationship, been awhile since you heard that huh.

That is so sweet of you to say about your "teacher" wife.

 

[bill harrell]

That's probably that guy that hacks my phone...lol

 

[Dani]

Yes, those methods work wonders! When I was teaching and a student saying that they needed a Hall Pass to get some water to stop the hiccups. I would just look at them and tell them that I ashamed of them for wanting to get out of my class to meet up with some guy or girl. They would then tell me that they really do have the hiccups... I would say "yeah sure..." I would tell them to look at me in the eyes and hiccup. They never could... not in 15 years of teaching.

You were just focusing them onto something eles. . .kinda like when I was young and the other kid would say I'll give you a $100 bucks next time you hiccup.

 

[Bravery]

I've talked to so many teachers who say that the profession is not a long term thing anmore. They got burned out early, what with the attitudes of students and parents and the politics controlling their working environment. Fifteen years is a long time nowadays.

I actually am looking to go back into teaching... but NOT in the public sector (IF YOUR KIDS ARE IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS... GET THEM OUT NOW).

(SEGUE... yeah right) I know so many public school teachers that send their kids to private school... I have mine in a Christian school (He really needs to get on God's good side... if I sent him to regular secular school... he will get into so much trouble... I need him at a place were God can keep an eye on him). Sorry if I ramble... but I get really passionate about this.

My last year teaching, I had two of my students shot, one will be in a wheelchair for the rest of his life, the other will be wearing a colostomy bag. One of my students was arrested by the police right out of my class (for armed robbery... just who did he rob you ask... the teacher next door!!! And this kid was in my Advanced class). I could go on and on... if it were in a movie you all would be yelling "BS" at the screen!!! But that is not why I left...

I left because it killed me inside to see what the public schools were doing to kids. The schools are so mismanaged!!! They are constantly changing curriculum without rhyme or reason. They are micromanaging the lessons. This kills the art of teaching... I had a friend that would actually teach history backwards (from present to the past)... he felt that it gave the kids a better grasp of history.. I had another friend that when he taught Government, he called the newspaper and talked them into sending a classroom set of papers every day. He would then use current event to teach Government. Both of these teachers would be unable to do this because the students wouldn't be up to date for the Quarterly testing. For example in World History his students would be on the fall of Soviet-style Communism but the County test would be on the City-states in Mesopotamia. Also do you remember how your teacher loved a certain topic... well that passion very well carry over to more learning. But that is killed when you only have 3 days to teach a certain topic. AND then there is the State test. The test that all the teachers teach.

I might end back at a public school but I can tell you this much... I will NOT sell my soul!! If I go back, I will be fighting them every step.

 

[bill harrell]

Hello everyone. This is Bill's wife, Leslie. Bravery, I can absolutely relate to your indecision to go back to the classroom. I teach high school English, 7-12, and some days feel that I might as well teach in a prison with my street thugs that I am attempting to turn on to reading....anything. I have gone so far as to even show up to school dressed as characters such as Tupac or Twinkie the Kid...just to get students' attention. Ridiculous, I know. Tupac was a hit, except for when I had to take the aluminum foil off my teeth that had served as my "grill." Anything to achieve the result of learning. But, woe is me, I suffer from the dreaded, inevitable burn out. My much loved street gang takes a lot of work and only on the days when I view my job as a ministry that will one day make a difference am I fulfilled. But here of late, I no longer teach with zealous energy, but with the thoughts and prayers of just making it through the day without losing my religion.....or my reputation...or my wallet on Jerome and Markeshia and "Football." So....until I can be refreshed, I no longer have any business teaching. I sincerely pray that I will one day again lie in bed dreaming up a new game that will keep the students interested in the vocabulary that may or may not be on their state test. Oh, BTW....Bravery, Bill has informed me that you have a slight typo in your above paragraph...lol

 

[bill harrell]

Oh sorry....( how did this get in there) its my sabiki rig....lol

 

[bugout]

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Bill you better change your password now!!!!!LOL