Before this year, I hadn't spent a lot of time with elementary school aged kids. They are wild and crazy and hilarious! They make me wonder at what age walking stopped being fun. I don't see how elementary school teachers (like my moms) do it! Here are some of the funny things I've heard around the neighborhood lately...
M: My little sister's room is so girly. It is full of Disney princesses. It makes me want to die.
Me: How is your room decorated?
M: Hannah Montana
A: I am never having any children. Well, maybe just two or three girls so they can be flower girls in my wedding. (Okay, maybe given the neighborhood dynamics this isn't so funny!)
P: (to me) You sound just like a little mouse!
Me: (reading an animal book to F) Have you ever seen a gorilla?
F: (looking at me like I am a total idiot) There is one right on the page!
"lumbering our minds with literature..."
"Somewhere between prayer and revolution....:"
"This is what we were all doing, lumbering our minds with literature that only served to cloud the really vital situation spread before our eyes...I am simply smothered and sickened with advantages. It is like eating a sweet dessert the first thing in the morning. This, then, was the difficulty, this sweet dessert in the morning and the assumption that the sheltered, educated girl has nothing to do with the bitter poverty and the social maladjustment which is all around her, and which, after all, cannot be concealed, for it breaks through poetry and literature in a burning tide which overwhelms her." -Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull-House
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