Parents Beware: Your children share some funny stuff with their teachers

[MM27]

Back to School Night was tonight at my school. I have been working on some newspaper type All About Me posters with my students. Most of them were already hung up, but today I was editing one of the last ones. One section had the students list their favorites. This one boy wrote for favorite magazine "The Sexy Chicks Magazine" I asked him if there was really a magazine with that name. He explained the magazine to me and I asked if that was something that was really appropriate for 4th grade and he said, "No, but my dad reads it. Actually he just looks at the pictures" Oh, I so wanted to share that with his father tonight.

My class this year is very chatty. I start a lot of my sentences with, "Do you think your mother/father/etc. would really like you sharing that with us?"

[HelenePA]

I am so afraid of what my 7 yr old has told her teacher.. I dont even ask. I do know she told her teacher I would kill her (my dd) if she did not hand it all the worksheets she (the teacher) sent home to do while she was sick and then didn't want to look at...

[Ephany]

I don't even want to know what my DD has said about us. Last night I had a mild rant about the fact that her teacher doesn't give the kids their list of spelling words, instead she emails them to the parents the day before the test in a newsletter. And no she didn't tell us that the test was the next day so lots of children apparently 'failed' their test yesterday because their parents hadn't read the newsletter yet. Needless to say I'm sure the first thing DD said this morning was that Mommy was not happy about the way the spelling lists and tests were arranged. Of course if that's the worse thing she ever says about me, I'm pretty lucky.

[IDoDis]

I've heard some pretty funny stories. Recently, one of my students (1st grader) told me all about how her mom was ticked off at her step dad because he kept skipping out of work, but was leaving the house making her think he was going to work. One night a friend of the mom called her and said she saw her husband who was supposed to be at work.

The little girl's eyes got big and round as she said to me, "And do you know where he was hanging out?"

Me: No. Where was he?

Girl: He was at GAMESTOP!!!!!!!! When he came home my mom asked him "How was work?" and he said it was fine. Then my mom said, "Oh, how was GAMESTOP??????"

They way she said so animated was cute. Needless to say, this step-parent is very young -- early to mid 20s.

If parents only knew some of the things their kids talk about

[bumbershoot]

Originally Posted by Ephany

...her teacher doesn't give the kids their list of spelling words, instead she emails them to the parents the day before the test in a newsletter.

That can't possibly OK (the teacher not giving the *kids* what they are expected to learn...you ranting about it is fine). Is that an acceptable thing to do? It doesn't seem right.


In 1st grade I was just at my mom's elbow height. One day I was following too close to her, and she swung around, and whammo, black eye.

Went into school, Mrs Q asked me "who gave you that black eye?" I said (truthfully) "my mama!"

[JennaTX]

I remember last year when DS was in K, the teacher sent home a note saying "We won't believe everything your child says happens at home, if you won't believe everything they say happens at school!" I thought that was too funny and so true!

[pampam]

I remember as a child my dad told me how when he was a cowboy he used to ride the range playing his guitar. One day some coyotes attatcked him so he beat them off with the guitar and left the broken guitar there. The next week he was riding along by the same place and saw the coyotes up on the hill. They had fixed the guitar and were playing it. Of course it was the gospel truth. My dad said it was, so I went to school and told my 1st grade teacher all about it. She thought it was pretty funny as she told my mom.

[aprilgail2]

We have a system at work where if someone with more seniority wants your job they can displace you and take you job and you have to go displace someone else---could be a different location and different hours and different days off....so a friend of mine was pretty new and was getting displaced often so he would go home and tell his wife that he got bumped off his job and had to go pick another one. Well his 6 year old step daughter didn't understand the whole concept and went to school each time saying "my step father lost his job again". At parent teacher conferance the teacher mentioned something like "Sally has been telling us about the trouble holding jobs you have been having and she is handling it all very well" My friend almost died! Took him a minute to figure out why the kid would keep saying he lost his job and then had to explain how seniority works to the teacher and tell he he still works for the same company Just different location/hours etc LOL.

[Cindy B]

I had one kid tell me that her daddy sleeps on the couch because her mommy caught him using house money at the casino!

I had a fairly morbid-black humor thing said to me as well. The student thought it was funny but I was horrified. I was working in a high crime urban area school and I told one of my students that he was just growing so much. He then said "My mom told me that I better not grow anymore because I will outgrow kids coffins if I need one!"

[golfgal]

These stories are EXACTLY why you shouldn't automatically believe what your child is telling you about something that happened at school .

The daughter of some friends was telling her 1st grade teacher that her parents weren't really her parents because her real mom and dad were killed in a car accident. She kept talking about her 4 brothers and all the stuff they would do, etc. This was a fairly small town and the teachers didn't "think" she had 4 brothers (she has one). Finally at conferences they asked about the "accident'. It was pretty funny.

When our DS17 was in preschool he would come home every day and tell us what he had for lunch, who he sat by, etc. I kept thinking "I don't remember anything about having lunch at preschool and who is paying for this?". At conferences we asked about it and no, they didn't eat lunch .

Kids can be very creative--just keep that in mind the next time your kids come home and said "the teacher........"

[PatsGirl]

In early elementary school, DD had to keep a journal and write a paragraph or two in it each night talking about anything she wanted. Her teacher shared the journals with us at Open House. One entry was "I really wanted to go to Burger King but my mother has a rule ~ if they dont' serve Chardonnay, we don't eat there" Yup, that's the house rule!

[golfgal]

Originally Posted by PatsGirl

In early elementary school, DD had to keep a journal and write a paragraph or two in it each night talking about anything she wanted. Her teacher shared the journals with us at Open House. One entry was "I really wanted to go to Burger King but my mother has a rule ~ if they dont' serve Chardonnay, we don't eat there" Yup, that's the house rule!

And the problem is....

[Breezy_Carol]

Originally Posted by PatsGirl

In early elementary school, DD had to keep a journal and write a paragraph or two in it each night talking about anything she wanted. Her teacher shared the journals with us at Open House. One entry was "I really wanted to go to Burger King but my mother has a rule ~ if they dont' serve Chardonnay, we don't eat there" Yup, that's the house rule!

These stories are great.

[Mellie2162]

Originally Posted by pampam

I remember as a child my dad told me how when he was a cowboy he used to ride the range playing his guitar. One day some coyotes attatcked him so he beat them off with the guitar and left the broken guitar there. The next week he was riding along by the same place and saw the coyotes up on the hill. They had fixed the guitar and were playing it. Of course it was the gospel truth. My dad said it was, so I went to school and told my 1st grade teacher all about it. She thought it was pretty funny as she told my mom.

Is your dad my brother? I swear to you this sounds like one of his stories. For the longest time he had each of the girls in this family believing they were found beside a dumpster and raised by his mother. He told my sister the milk man was her father and pointed out all the similarities and she nearly fell for that one. I cant even begin to tell you the endless stories he has told his own kids and had them believing. Oh my gosh the things a child would believe.

[RhondaL]

My dog is a nervous nellie. One time during a bad thunderstorm, he curled up next to me and the kids and was shaking uncontrollably. DD (10) says "Mom, Chip is vibrating." I said, "He's scared, just keep petting him." DS(6) said "Wow, our dog is a vibrator." Then he says "we are learning -or words, I am going to tell Mrs. P that!!!!" How do you explain that? We distracted him and thankfully, he forgot. I, also thankfully, teach 7th grade at the school and had forwarned his teacher that the comment might be coming!