Just a few things I thought were amusing from our conversation last night.
- She told me she was watching a comedian on Comedy Central the other night and the comedian said she couldn't understand Homophobia. She has never, in her life, seen folks who are Arachnophobic run up and punch a spider square in the face.
- Simon is in 1st grade and he has decided he wants to be the class clown. Dara has explained to him that the class clown isn't the most repected kid in the class. I don't think Simon is going for respect at this point in his life. He is going for laughs.
He is doing the typical things 1st graders do. For example, he fell down in music class and got a few laughs...so, he then proceeded to fall down about 5 more times until the class was laughing so hard they all got in trouble.
He says he can't control himself when he gets 'silly.'
I think it's funny that when we are kids we honestly believe we can't control ourselves...and then when we are adults we totally think we can control ourselves, but it is quite apparent that this isn't completly true.
Anyway...Dara has set up a rewards and punishment plan. If he continues to not be able to control himself she is going to take everything out of his room except his bed, blankets, pillows, and maybe the nightlight.
When he is good she lets him have a 'popcicle,' which is really just frozen Kool-Aid on a stick, but he loves it just the same. So much, in fact he told Dara that at the the end of the day, at school, the only word he can say is "icee." Fortunately, he has discovered a switch on his voicebox that allows him to 'turn on' other words.
Dara informed him that if he continues to do this people are going to think he is completly insane, and start making fun of him.
His response was..."so, you want me to put my brain in a prison.?"
Heh heh, kids are so funny!!
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