u/tubesocktits_OG

I'll be teaching History 201 to a dual-enrollment class and feel like the best way to ease my imposter syndrome is to be overly prepared. I've got my lectures and slides ready for the next few weeks, but I'm nervous about looking like a total newbie if I'm reading from my lecture notes. With so little time to prepare, there's not much of a chance I'll have memorized much of it. My question is this: do you read straight from lecture notes, and if so, does that read as inexperienced?

I got my lovebird about a month ago as a fully weaned 9/10-week-old baby, and I’ve been trying to do everything right to build trust. His cage stays in my home office, where I work remotely, so he’s around me all day. I make several short visits with my hand inside the cage, offer millet, move slowly, and talk to him often.

He seems genuinely curious about me. If I’m in another room, he’ll call until I answer him, and when I sit beside his cage and talk to him, he’ll watch me with what looks like relaxed, interested body language. But the moment my hand goes into the cage, everything changes. Whether I rest my hand at the bottom of the cage or hold millet higher up, he wants nothing to do with it or with me.

So my question is this: is it possible that, even if I’m doing all the recommended trust-building exercises, some birds just never become hand-tame? Or is it more likely that he simply needs more time? What kinds of timelines have your experiences been?