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December 13, 2004
The Horror of No Toys
I was taking advantage of a few minutes peace yesterday while WildChild was playing with Play-Doh to study for my final Tuesday night. (A written, comprehensive C++ final. Yuck!) WildChild noticed I was reading and asked what I was doing.
"I'm studying for a test in my class," I said. "So I have to read this book."
He didn't quite understand what a test was, but he knows I go to school just like he does (headstart a couple of times a week. Him, not me). He has a crush on his headstart teacher, like most little boys, and is just fascinated that I have more than one teacher.
"When you see your two teachers Ma?" he asked.
"I will see one of them Tuesday night when I go to class to take my test" I tell him.
"No," he said firmly. "You go to class and play with toys."
Which is logical to him because that's mostly what he does in his class, but it still cracked me up.
"No," I tell him. "There are no toys in my class."
He gasped and eyes wide with horror asked "There are NO TOYS in your classroom Ma?"
"That's right. We have no toys in my classroom."
"You just have to DO YOUR HOMEWORK?" he asked shocked.
"Yes. We have no toys, but we do have computers in our classroom," I said.
"Oh," he said, but he kept giving me these sympathetic looks that made it obvious that he thought computers weren't nearly as good as toys.
A classroom with no toys.
Unthinkable.
Posted by Rita at December 13, 2004 07:40 AM