Today, I spent the wee hours of the morning at the ER with Zip. Asthma. He’s fine. It’s an old story, but I woke up tired after only three hours of sleep.
I got Tizzy ready for school this morning thinking, “Wow! This shirt and shorts will be great for ‘Green’ day!”
I didn’t look at the calendar.
I went to pick Tizzy up, and it was clearly not lost on him that today was “Red” day, and that I hadn’t dressed him appropriately. Looking around, it was apparent that I was the only parent who’d forgotten to check the calendar.
School — Grrrrr!
“Raspberries are red!” Tizzy announced.
“Poppy and I are the same.” He continued. “We don’t like raspberries.”
I’d secretly hoped that maybe Poppy’s mom had forgotten to send her to school in red, too.
“Kids were saying, ‘I like raspberries, and you like raspberries! Let’s be friends!’ That’s not a very nice thing to say, Mom.”
“Was it making the kids who don’t like raspberries sad?”
Tizzy rolled his eyes.
“No. I sa-aaaid, ‘I like raspberries, and yooo-oou like raspberries! Let’s be friends!!!’ Tha-aat’s not nice. My teacher said so.”
“Right. Because it made the kids who don’t like raspberries feel left out. Right?”
“Sheesh mom! You’re not listening!! I said, ‘I like raspberries, you like raspberries, let’s be friends is not nice, Mom!!! You’re not paying attention! My teacher said kids don’t like that. When everyone said that, she said, ‘NO!’”
“O.K.” I said. “Try and explain to me why that’s not nice.”
“Because it’s not, Mom.”
“But, to who? The kids who like raspberries, or the kids who don’t?”
“I don’t know. Someone."
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This is as hard to figure out as the math homework my 2nd grader brought home today!
:)
Ha, he lost me too. I like raspberries but not on ice cream. What does that make me?
It's a lot like conversations I have with Leta... Man we just don't GET it. ;)
I like raspberry mojitos, is that nice or not nice?
I'm so lost...are we liking the kids who like raspberries, or not?
Whoa, that is COMPLICATED! Maybe the teacher was trying to compare it to racism or something... like how when we were in school they used to divide up the blue-eyed kids and the brown-eyed kids to make us understand discrimination? Either way, sounds very confusing!!!
We had a very similar conversation around here the other day. My kids drive me crazy...anyone else? Wanna be friends?
I love kids and logic.
Sounds exactly like the conversations I have with Richelor. BTW I didn't know that the kids were supposed to bring teddy bears to school for the first two weeks. I kinda heard, but forgot. On the first day of school for some reason he had taken an elephant. But the rest of the days nothing. So at least you didn't screw it up for 14 days like I did!
wow.
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