lovemankind | Entries tagged with tales from the toybox

I was going to wait until I had more of these to post all at once, but eh, fuck it. Gives me more incentive to post frequently. This subtype of posts is going to be quotes and short scenes from work, because damn if these kids aren't funny as hell.

~Dramatis Personae~

Me: Miss [redacted], teacher, twenty-six
Girl: Sassy lil' thing, threes group, three

Context: our toddler rooms are all named after the seasons. We divide our older preschoolers from our threes group in a technical sense, but because we're short-staffed those two groups are generally together and often referred to as a whole as "preschool".

Me: [counting how many kids we have in the room out loud]

Girl, currently sitting in my lap: Hey, why did you say "summer" to me? I'm in preschool-- in threes!

Me: Oh, I said "seven".

Girl: [bemused] I'm not seven, I'm three! >:I

Me: I know you're three, honey. I was just counting how many kids there are in our room.

Girl: [plaintively, more emotional] But I'm not seven, I'm three!

Me: [trying not to laugh] I know, you were just the seventh kid I counted--

Girl: [distressed and confused] But I'm not seven, I'm three!! :(

Me: [cracking up] ... Okay.

So, I know I said I wasn't going to do any catch-up posting, but this tidbit is necessary context: I have been working at a childcare facility as a teacher for the past four months. This has kind of taken over my life. I'm pretty sure my family is sick of me making so many jokes referencing specific kids they've never met, and saying, "Oh, this reminds me of the cute thing so-and-so did..." So what better place to post about it than my journal? I've actually written a few drafts of posts for this series, and I've been writing down funny things the kids say. This is probably going to be interesting to an even nicher group within the readers of this journal, but it's not really FOR anyone else as much as it is for me. Other people reading and potentially enjoying it will just be a pleasant side effect.