impaction problems

You have already told us that your anxiety levels are high, that you hate your job. So a bit of relaxation is called for. Maybe, you need to do yoga or meditation or something similar and decide to look at the things that first attracted you to teaching and try to rekindle an old love, or make something new of it that will re-invigorate your approach. Also, teaching is one of the occupations well known for not favoring regular bowel habits. But teachers are smart people so there must be a way of skirting around this difficulty.

You need also to look at your diet. Are you including every day enough of the right foods in your diet to make soft small stools? The web site you mention will tell you a lot about this. Perhaps you should seek a phone consultation there? Also are you eating a regular three small meals a day?

Setting up a regular bowel habit at those times when it is most convenient to you is pretty important. I would suggest you time the minutes/hours difference between your breakfast and your bowel movement. (That’s assuming you have breakfast.) This might give you some indication of how long it takes you personally to move food. Then try sitting on the toilet at approximately the same amount of time after your other two meals. No straining, just waiting a few minutes with the idea of setting up a regular appointment with Mrs Porcelain to eventually get to the stage where the appointment proves successful.

The fact you are having compressed stools, as you know, means you are not answering all the calls, or are not noticing them when they come. You need to become more aligned to your body, communicate back and forth, take it seriously as a friend, not an enemy to fight or get the better of.

Just an afterthought. I wondered whether you would consider introducing WW posture to your students. You would not have to mention its true name and therefore its present connection mostly with POP. You could call it something the kids would find posh like deportment or cool like posture Tao. Just spend five minutes with the class both boys and girls explaining how to stand in WW posture and how it benefits them by building a strong back and abdominal muscles and explain how if they stick with it, it will protect them from the vagaries of old age which expression covers a multitude of issues and is rather awe inspiring in the young.

You’ve probably seen asthmatic kids slumped over their desks with neither the breath nor the strength to sit up straight, but when they are well there is little to prevent them and can only prove beneficial in moderation. I’m sure parents would cheer.

You could demonstrate the posture out the front as helpful to both men and women and explain casually how women have a deeper lumber curve than men. Get the class to stand up and do it and then get the child next to them to check they have it right. Then you could challenge them to see who can hold the posture sitting down for five minutes, or you could surprise them in five minutes time looking around to find that at least one child is still holding the posture and acknowledging them.

Then the next day just call them to posture. A few will say they can’t do it, but others will stretch themselves to last longer than five minutes. This competition could be encouraged as long as it does not interfere too much in the true lesson. A tally keeper could be nominated (especially likely the leader from the group of dissenters). Any inspectors or others passing by can be told the kids were a bit tired, or they have just been to Maccas and are bit hyper, whatever. Five or ten minutes should not be frowned on.

Can’t you just hear old school friends in ten, twenty years time:

“You know that old Ysyoucan, she knew a thing or two?”

“Who? Oh you mean old Miss Potty Posture? Yeah, you know she saved us from all that tummy tuck nonsense.”

“And we never knew.”

“No.”

“Hey do you think she had kids and knew about these bulge things?”

“She must have.”

Wow Fab, that is what I call dreaming big!! In a perfect world this wouldn't even be necessary. Kids would never "learn" suck-and-tuck posture in the first place. We'd all stand and move the way we were meant to. I know that perfect world is a long way off......