Sometimes it's torture

For the most part I love my job. There are times however, that I do not. Puppetry is one of those times. I teach Puppeting to 3rd graders and while most elementary students today are lacking imagination, it seems that the 3rd graders at my school are lacking the most. My word, if I have to see one more puppet show about Red Riding Hood that ends in every puppet eating each other, I might lose it. I have no idea how to encourage imagination...even when I tell them to just "play" they don't know how. Today took the cake, when Little Red arrived at Grammy's she asked "Geez Grammy, why didn't you just order take-out?"