I apologize to Elizabeth when I'm unreasonably snippy, too. She's not big enough to parse out why she's feeling off-kilter most of the time, but by the time she is, she'll have plenty of examples of how to deal with it.

Of course, I've had classes that would see an admission like the one above as an opportunity to make the teacher cry for fun.

Thanks for your perspective. I'm very wrapped up in parenting tiny ones at the moment, and hadn't even thought of how this would work with teens.