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02.18.09

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Posted in Uncategorized at 12:55 pm by Anne

Every other week I help out at Lily’s lunchtime. you may already know this, I get extra napkins and sporks…open ketchup packets and string cheese, whatever. And of course, since the class consists of 18 kids, I also try to keep them focused on eating which is not a small feat with 6 year olds, boys, especially.

They tumble out of chairs, and tease each other, they want to chase or pretend or exclude…so some of what I do then is police patrol. I dry tears, demand apologies, point out trash that needs to be picked up, etc.

A few weeks ago the boys were laughing and giggling and grinning about the notion of ‘boyfriends and girlfriends’ and I felt it was my obligation to clear the air. I casually sat down in the middle of the group and began, “You know, I have friends that are girls and I have friends that are boys…” The kids raised their eyebrows. ” Since they are all friends of mine, it is okay for me to refer to them simply as boyriends and girlfriends…do you understand what I am telling you?”

The head boy, a nice kid who is repeating kindergarden this school year(he is not a slow kid maybe just a bit rambunctious), nodded and looked at me with his large blue eyes. He said,” My Mom and Dad broke up because my Mom has a boyfriend.”

So, of course, I changed the subject.

This week, the boys were causing a ruckus in the lunchroom. That same boy with the big blue eyes had somehow reduced the toughest girl in class to tears in addition to another little boy across the lunch table from him. It was a two-for-one special I guess. So I sat down and sternly talked with the child about how I had every right to demote his behavior from the color blue(the best) all the way down to red(which generally means a visit to the principal). I decribed how it’s not kind to say hurtful things, how these are your classmates, etc blablabla, don’t be hateful, lalala…during which a different boy piped up declaring, “Andy is crying like a little baby!” And off I went on a different tangent. “Now Oscar, babies may cry but so does everyone. It’s okay to cry when one is sad, in fact I cried just last week. Everyone cries sometimes not just babies.”

Blue eyed boy got my attention again. He was agreeing with me and said,” My Daddy cried after my Mom lied to him.”

Oh boy.

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4 Comments »

Sunshine said,

February 18, 2009 at 2:22 pm

Wow. Can’t protect from everything, can ya? They ARE paying attention.
Ali said,

February 24, 2009 at 4:54 pm

Makes me wonder what my kids tell their friends/parents/teachers at school…of course we lead pretty boring lives so there isn’t much to report. But still.
ceri said,

February 27, 2009 at 3:59 pm

wow. you sound like a good school-helper. i’m usually too shy to tell kids off. it’s hard not to be affected by the things they say, though.
Wack-A-Mole said,

March 13, 2009 at 3:30 pm

Is it a coincidence that your posting frequency dropped off the face of the earth after election day? Just sayin’

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