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Though my son has never been disrespectful to an adult (he knew that the life I’d given him could as easily be taken away 
), he has had his share of non-angelic moments. </p>
<p>I actually got a call from his third grade teacher when he was 8. Seems he had gotten into some name calling with a little girl in class, and the girl was so upset over what he had called her that she had told the teacher and the teacher called me. I was MORTIFIED!!! I mean, this was my ambassador to the WORLD, my OLDEST child, and I get this CALL??? :eek: I was TERRIFIED to ask, but I did it anyway…“What exactly DID my son call the little girl?” The teacher hesitated for a second and then replied, “He called her a ‘paramecium’!” So, I turn to my son and asked, “Why on earth did you call her a paramecium?” And he replied, “Well, it’s a one-celled organism with no brain!” 
Oy.</p>
<p>In 8th grade, he did three days of in-school suspension for using the term “intercourse” in a little story that he had written with three other boys. Shameful! In our district, it’s O.K. to HAVE intercourse (those kids are given two-page spreads in the yearbook!), but go ahead and try to write the word… :rolleyes:</p>
<p>~berurah</p>