#anyways nonnie if you feel a breeze across your forehead that's me sending you a kiss

[mikichko]

(I’m mixing two things I saw on tiktok that I adored and thought would be so cute)

Adoptive parents Simon and Johnny come in one pruning and find out that teacher reader starts the day with that mother moon song “I love my body from my head to my toes, I love face: my eyes, my mouth, my nose. I love who I see when I look in the mirror, I stand a lil closer just to see a lil clearer. Who is that? It’s me! And I am looking good as good can be. So what do we say, we tell ourselves ‘I love myself in every single way’”. Before doing some affirmations (“are we brave?” Kids: “yes!” “Are we strong?” “Yes” “are we gonna do our best to get along?” “Yes!” “Are we loved?” “Yes!” “Are we precious?” “Yes!” “Do we know doing our best is the best-est?” “Yes!!” “Then we are gonna have a great day!!”) and Zachy is there and the kids are including him and the reader even pokes his nose during the song to make him smile and know she means him and it’s so sweet that the two SAS soldiers have to take a second to collect themselves because they are so thankful that their boy has you in his life

ding ding ding!!!! you hit the nail on the head nonnie!

the thing about teacher!reader is that everything in their classroom is done with intent. they're more than aware of what happens to kids whose personalities are beaten down and broken. they know the kind of adults they become, the different paths of misery that leads to, and just how much work goes into undoing that. they've had to do it themselves.

part of the reason they became a teacher was because of how impactful their teachers were to them when they were younger. so they vow that in their classroom they would enact rules and practices to make sure that their kids, yes those are their kids, can develop proper confidence, emotional intelligence, and the skills to be able to voice their emotions. cause these are not things that are inherent and I speak from personal experience when I tell you that not knowing how you feel or being emotionally numb is horrible.

so it's only natural that they start the day with 'i love my body'. and of course, she pays extra close attention to zach, all this poor baby's been hearing is that his body is violent and unstable. that poor boy does not deserve to internalize it. she always pokes his nose on the second go around, where the song is much faster and the kids are giggling getting their wiggles all out.

i also think that affirmations aren't just a classroom thing but an at-home thing. johnny started affirmations first, just because he could see how unsure his boy was in his own skin. he wanted him to be more confident in himself and what better way than to do that while getting ready with his papa in the morning??? I'm going to write an entire chapter (??? idk what to call it . it's all coming out of order) on this and a little bit of insight on zach's life before being adopted so stay tuned :D

apologies for answering your asks backward nonnie. week's been a mess and I have not had a single coherent train of thought at all.a as so graciously shown through this ask!! but hopefully, the week is easing up and I can start to work on these again!