<p>Thanks for sharing all these great stories.</p>
<p>D, about age 3, was in trouble for drawing with permanent marker on her table, her bed sheets, and herself during ‘quiet time’. H had her in the tub while I tried to clean up in her room. She said to H, “Dad is a beautiful dad. Mom is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.”</p>
<p>S was in Kindergarten. One night when H was tucking him in, S looked up and said, “Dad, thanks for giving me a Y. I’m glad I didn’t get two Xs like <sister’s name=”">."</sister’s></p>
<p>This probably would work better in " phone calls you dont want to get", but I forgot.</p>
<p>So youngest is currently taking a Wilderness First Responder Course while on spring break.
She texted her dad " I was in a hot air balloon accident!"
He has a dumb phone, so was frantically trying to text her back when she send a picture of her face all " bloodied".
Then he realized what she was doing. She was a * victim* in a rescue scenario. </p>
<p>DW is a teacher; a preschool teacher now, but she was a kindergarten teacher at the time of this story. She was relatively new and was trying an activity that wasn’t going very well. </p>
<p>One of her students, previously described as an old soul, calmly looks at her and says: </p>
<p>“Mrs. N, this is ■■■■■■■■.” (Male cow excrement)</p>
<p>As I recovered from my spit take, I realized I didn’t win any husband of the year points. I just asked if she agreed, that yes, yes indeed, this was ■■■■■■■■ (Male cow excrement)</p>
<p>Yes, old souls can say the darndest things. Our S was an “old soul” as well and I didn’t really understand why people kept telling me that until we had D two years later. When he was in preschool, he would get in trouble for telling the other kids they weren’t following the rules. He’d get in trouble for making them cry and they’d get in trouble for breaking the rules. He found “free play” very confusing because it was so unstructured. At this moment, I can’t think of anything in particular he said, but he was always so very serious.</p>
<p>He did tell me candidly one day when he was in 1st or 2nd grade why having “peer” tutors among grade school wouldn’t work well. He said (in his own words), they need to have mastery of the subject matter AND know how to lead the student to the answer instead of just providing it (which is a lot faster and easier). </p>
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