Monday Laugh, also reference

It was good to have a laugh, I needed that. I have linked a parentdish post on keeping a straight face when your child does something punishable but funny. I wanted to save the link for the future-with four kids it's bound to come up. I like some of the responses people gave(particularly responses 4 and 18, if you read the comments).

Leanna did have a note sent home this year for a small incident a bit ago. A boy grabbed her pencil and she grabbed it back. Not a huge deal. But apparently it's happened before and the teacher told her she should tell the teacher not try to grab it back herself. I wasn't sure exactly what to say other than that she has to follow the school's rules. (Tom told her, no you have to defend yourself or you'll get picked on. Arrgggh! So now she's got mixed messages about it.) But who knows, maybe the incident disrupted the whole class.

Anyway, a few of the incidents mentioned are pretty funny. I really love the image of the kid leading the fire drill line in the limbo. Not only is it a funny mental picture, but it makes me laugh at the personality of a kid who would think to do something like that!

Then in the comments: I would be upset with my kid for the language, but it is pretty funny " In our family, we get a belly laugh every Christmas when we sit down with our daughter to write her letter to Santa. Once, many years ago, our now-15ish nephew was having a difficult year and began his letter, written while in school: "F#@% You, Big Fat Santa..." (and got suspended). We get our pens and paper out, and the chortles start as soon as our pens get near the paper. It's been a handful of years since, and it never stops being funny to us. It's one of our all-time favourite family stories, and when the extended family gets together, it never fails to make us all laugh together. Even his mother laughs now. A little bit."