Teacher Therapy

Judy Bowen | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 26, 1999)
• Original Release Date: October 26, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Round Top Barn Music
• ASIN: B00004C4S0
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #151,338 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Customer Reviews

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51 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must-Have CD for Primary Grade Teachers!

, March 15, 2001

By 

Victoria C Smith (
Bakersfield, CA ~ USA
) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Teacher Therapy (Audio CD)

I'm actually laughing out loud, which doesn't happen too often while working on the website :o) I just found this wonderful CD called Teacher Therapy, by teacher/folksinger Judy Bowen -- does anyone KNOW this woman? Does she do workshops? I would love to meet her!

Be sure to listen to the clips from this wonderfully funny and sometimes poignant CD on the trials and tribulations of being a teacher.

The first song is called "So You Want To Be A Teacher." Among the other words of musical wisdom were these lines:

"It takes more than facts and figures,
If a teacher you will be ...
You gotta have a good bladder,
'cuz you never get to pee!"

Another one that made me laugh is called "These Things We Always Say:"

"Why we just had our bathroom and our water fountain break.
What could you have been doing when we stopped there at the fountain?

Now sit back down, I don't think you'll dehydrate.
These things we always say,
That no child ever hears them,
We say them 1, 2, 3 ... ten times in each and every day.
Sit down now and be quiet ..."

"Schoolteacher Stampede" had me giggling, and "February Teacher Blues" describes how so many of us still feel halfway through March:

"Paperwork is higher than the Eiffel Tower
Brain is feeling mushy, I ain't got no power,
Movin' oh so slow, I just don't wanna go
To school.
Gray days, inside recess, you know what I mean,
Three weeks in a row and I just wanna scream,
February teacher blues."

Sound familiar to anyone? And how about these lines from "A Million Things"?

"Why is it that the teaching is the last thing I have time for?
Why am I robbing Peter to pay Paul?
Why is it every job gets halfway done and then I leave it?
Just to hurry to another, knowing I can't do them all.
The children come, I don't have time to hear their little stories,
I don't have time to give them all a hug ..."

And the final song, "Brandon Moved Away," made me a teeny bit weepy. It's a song about losing a student that you're afraid will get lost in the shuffle somewhere else, and you had no idea he was leaving at all.

I rarely recommend something I haven't yet touched and read/listened to in full, but this CD is wonderful, sight unseen. It made my afternoon, here at home getting over the flu.

Happy Teaching!

Victoria :o)
KinderKorner Owner

30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A teacher you might be........., January 16, 2000

By 

Ann Kynion (Jefferson City, MO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Teacher Therapy (Audio CD)

I first heard this CD in November and couldn't wait to share it with other teachers. It seemed so appropriate to call the teachers to the next faculty meeting by playing "Faculty Meetings" over the intercom. I even caught my principal after school one day and made her listen to a bunch of the songs. She too was impressed and is looking at the possibility of have Ms.Bowen join us on a professional development day. I loved the songs, the lyrics and the genuine "truths" of teaching that Judy Domeny Bowen has captured on this wonderful CD. Whenever I need a lift or had a hard day with my students, I play a song or two and immediately get to smiling, foot-tapping and singing along. I know, too, that there are others that understand and see the humor in the trials and tribulations of a teacher's day and it is pure enjoyment to hear it from one of your own. I think my favorite humorous song on this CD is the Schoolteacher Stampede. It really hit home with the holidays this year. As the musician herself might say about this CD, "its a keeper!"

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sing it again, Judy, January 12, 2000

By 

Don Carlson (Kansas, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Teacher Therapy (Audio CD)

As an ex teacher I was amused, entertained, educated, and touched by Judy Domeny's original songs about teaching, from the fun to the tragedies of teaching young children, Brandon's song pulls heavily at the heartstrings. Judy's voice is experienced in all the old ballads giving her an extra edge for this one. She has emerged suddenly as a songwriter too. Mostly the songs are riotous fun and hilarity sending you skipping to the teacher's workroom for some of Cheryl's cooking or a chocolate fix. I got copies for all the teachers I know who have a good sense of humor. This is a CD every teacher of children needs. Need excuses for being late again? Judy has answers; and plans for snow days. We have worn the grooves off our CD from playing it over and over.