Advice on How to be a Successful Primary Teacher From a Newly Released Primary Teacher:
(By Bettyanne Bruin)

First: Up the credit limit on your Costco card for the ten pound candy treat purchases you will have to make each week, or else.

Second: Hire a good, qualified anger management counselor, one who specializes in ADHD.

Third: Make sure to make friends with at least a few say-yes-to-anything type people in the Ward for those times when you have no choice but to find a substitute.

Fourth: Be willing and ready to change your home phone number at any and/or every moment’s notice.

Fifth: Be willing and able to stay awake through Sacrament meeting in order to prepare your lesson.

Sixth: Work on your self-esteem so it is so intact that you will not feel the slightest bit rediculous sitting up in the choir seats at the front of the chapel surrounded by eighty-plus children, feeling totally oversized and humliated, during the Children’s Sacrament Meeting program.

Seventh: Make sure to have countless impromptu lessons ready for teaching as many as up to 80 children, ranging in age from 3 to 12, for those times when any or all of the other teachers pull a no-show.

Eighth: Practice smiling in front of the mirror until that smile can remain on your face no matter what the circumstance.

Ninth: Bookmark the word, "reverence," in your dictionary so you can look it up often to remind yourself of what the word really means.

Tenth: Work hard to keep your testimony killer-strong for those days when the second and third church-time hours of persecution really get rough.