That did actually happen once, a few years ago. The irony of it was that I was not at all interested in this woman's daughter (other than professionally, of course). But the mother had built up a reputation of making false accusations against male teachers (I think she just hated men)... Everything she said was very obviously - and easily proven to be - a complete pack of lies (though all fairly vague insinuations), so I came out completely unscathed, and she ended up being revealed as the lying bitch that she was.

I suppose the cardinal rule where school is concerned is: never be completely alone with one child. Then you will always have recourse to witnesses. But for the main schools that I work in now, I've known the staff, and many of the parents for a good long while, and they know me well and trust me, so this is really not an insurmountable issue.

Have you spoke to her? How was it?

Sure - every time I go in I get to see her at some point, usually breaks and lunchtimes, unless I teach her class, which hasn't happened for a while. I posted about her a couple of times - first time here. She's absolutely gorgeous!

In average I see Little Girls every month, at the [most]

A while back I packed in my full time job, and was going to do something different for a while. I won't go into the details here, but the reasons I left were nothing to do with anything GL-related: I had some issues with the way the education system was going here in the UK, and the way it seemed to be stifling individuality and creativity (on the part of both students and teachers) in favour of prescription and obsession with unrealistic "target setting". But I'm straying from the point (sorry!) which is that those few months out of the classroom were horrid, and I longed to get back. I think if you really love kids, then you need to be around them just to feel fulfilled in life, but there are other ways than teaching: youth work, voluntary work - maybe something like that might be of interest to you?

Judging from your experience, how would you rate your ability to teach? Are you verbose? Terse? Articulate? Entertaining (bad quality in teachers)?

Probably for others to judge! What I aim at is to try to get them interested enough so that they'll have a real interest in wanting to think things through, which means putting things into a context they're going to be interested in, asking open questions and not being too pushy with providing ready-made answers. Sometimes I talk too much, and when I'm working with older kids, we'll sometimes get off the subject a bit and follow tangents... but I don't think that's really a bad thing: they need to see how one thing relates to other things and has a much wider significance than just being able to answer some poxy question in an examination. As to entertaining, well, it depends what you mean...! If you don't have their interest, you're on a loser all the way. 'Purposeful entertainment' I suppose would be the term!

Is giving presents to Little Girls during Valentine Legal? :)

Lol:) Probably labelled 'gift abuse' or something...