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Why Teachers Struggle to Say No (And Why Scripts Don’t Work)
- Relationships & psychology
You know you need better boundaries at school. You saved the Instagram posts with "10 ways to say no," practiced the scripts in front of the mirror, and promised yourself you wouldn't take on extra duties. Yet when the moment comes, your mind freezes, or worse, you actually say "no" and then spend the rest of the day drowning in teacher guilt. In Part 3 of our 5-part Teacher Boundary Series, Kelsey gets vulnerable and shares a deeply personal story about a time when she literally could not get the words out to say no, and why no script...
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You likely know that you want to set more boundaries at school. You want to be able to say no when you need to. And yet you might struggle to get the words out in the actual moment. Maybe you can practice them in front of the mirror.
Maybe you saved even my post about 10 ways to say no without saying no on Instagram. Maybe you had to chat with Claude about how to say no at school. You have the words, you have the tools. You're smart.
You're capable of figuring out what to say. The problem is how to actually say it in that moment when you need to say it, or maybe you even do, maybe you say it, you set that boundary. and yet you are feeling and carrying this heavy guilt about the fact that you say no.
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