Oh the joys of the school bus.
Last week my kids complained that they were the "only kids" on the bus who didn't have electronics - iTouches, Kindles, etc. I told them that last year when they had gotten their Kindles, I emailed their teacher to see if they could bring it in and she said that she would be concerned that something would break or go missing. So we decided not to send the Kindles to school.
The kids complained. My daughter even went so far as to try to sneak one of the old iphones into her backpack but it's an old phone with a dead battery. She didn't get far.
The VERY NEXT DAY I got a mass email from the school principal reminding all parents that electronics are not allowed in (elementary) school. She mentioned that this INCLUDED the bus because some children had recently taken inappropriate photos on the bus.
AWESOME.
not.
Apparently parents don't read her emails because on Monday, my son's 3rd grade class was AGAIN reminded that electronics were not allowed in school because some children had been caught looking up inappropriate content.
Later my 10 yo son asked my husband was "fingering" was.
AWESOME.
also not.
Tonight at dinner my husband walked around the dinner table to kiss me. As he bent down all 4 kids started chanting, "French kiss, french kiss, french kiss!!"
He did kiss me. It wasn't french.
The kids booed.
Awesome.
No, that actually was.
For some reason, JSL (5 years old), is obsessed with kissing us on the mouth. He gets upset and doesn't understand why mommy and daddy can mouth-kiss each other but he can't. Then, he began trying to touch tongues. I wonder if I should be worried about what's going on in his class.
Posted by: TechyDad | January 25, 2013 at 09:42 AM
What was awesome, the kiss or the boo?
Posted by: joeinvegas | January 25, 2013 at 10:02 AM
I thankfully do not have "the bus" issues yet or electronics issue really. My dd has leappad2, she called it WIFI...it is too cute to correct..I am not looking forward to the inappropriate stuff at all..
Posted by: D H ARZA | January 25, 2013 at 10:57 AM
UGH The bus - hate it!!! Last year my 2nd grader found a piece of paper with swear words tucked in a seat (kindly left there by a high schooler) so he decided to write them as his spelling sentences. Thank goodness I checked them before he put them in his folder.
My hubby would have told our 10 yr old "fingering" meant picking your nose. Ya, that's how we roll - lie about it and turn topic in a different direction.
Posted by: traci | January 25, 2013 at 02:32 PM
Yes, the bus. And all of school these days. My children come home saying unbelievable things and their reply always is "I heard it at school." It was that way when I was young -- but no google to do further research.
Posted by: Jamie@SouthMainMuse | January 26, 2013 at 12:22 PM
There a lot of levels of awesome in this post. Only not really. Kids never fail to amaze me...
Posted by: tracey | January 27, 2013 at 10:45 AM
Before I was a parent, a cousin of mine said she was considering home-schooling her children because she heard that someone had brought p-o-r-n on the bus (yes, she actually spelled it out). At the time, I was thinking that there is no avoiding it -- the trick is to keep ahead of what the kids learn from their friends, but not in a way that freaks them out.
But that was before I had kids.
Now I'm thinking that my kids don't ever, ever need to go to school. Ever.
If I had a cheering section asking for a french kiss, though, I'd have to oblige ;-)
Posted by: DaddyRunsALot | January 30, 2013 at 08:20 AM