What are they teaching me at church?
In class yesterday, Katilynn kept muttering about Mr So&So being "a total perv." While I didn't discount her statement, I told her that, until I met him, I couldn't agree.
Then, her train of thought jumped tracks and she then stated that there's this girl at her middle school who is (her word) a "biosexual". After I tried to correct her pronunciation, she added, in a whisper, "And she's not a virgin." [FYI, I didn't ask for proof -- (1)Isaiah was in the room, (2)Katilynn's pervmeter was already on heightened alert thanks to Mr So&So, and (3)I know better.]
But let's not worry about 5th-grader Isaiah's sensitive ears.
He seems to think there are 7 biosexuals at his (elementary!) school, and later provided a his-age-appropriate explanation to Katilynn of how Oprah's pregnant man wasn't really a man.
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After the lesson was completed, Katilynn related the tween trauma she suffered at school on Friday, when she was jumped by a girl (not the one from the prior story) in the bathroom for "no reason I know". I then turned to her brother Bill and asked if he would defend his sister's honor.
In a shock to older/est children everywhere -- who have long maintained, exercised, and defended the exclusive rights to near-Bush-level torture on younger siblings -- Bill bluntly stated, "Nah. She probably deserved it."
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Later, during children's time in the main worship service, our minister asked the kids if they knew how a lighter worked. Stephen -- who's like me 25 years ago (quiet, but smart as a whip) -- gave a fairly accurate explanation, then added: "That's probably the only good thing about my mom being a smoker."
In their pew, dad and stepmom rolled their eyes.
Then, her train of thought jumped tracks and she then stated that there's this girl at her middle school who is (her word) a "biosexual". After I tried to correct her pronunciation, she added, in a whisper, "And she's not a virgin." [FYI, I didn't ask for proof -- (1)Isaiah was in the room, (2)Katilynn's pervmeter was already on heightened alert thanks to Mr So&So, and (3)I know better.]
But let's not worry about 5th-grader Isaiah's sensitive ears.
He seems to think there are 7 biosexuals at his (elementary!) school, and later provided a his-age-appropriate explanation to Katilynn of how Oprah's pregnant man wasn't really a man.
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After the lesson was completed, Katilynn related the tween trauma she suffered at school on Friday, when she was jumped by a girl (not the one from the prior story) in the bathroom for "no reason I know". I then turned to her brother Bill and asked if he would defend his sister's honor.
In a shock to older/est children everywhere -- who have long maintained, exercised, and defended the exclusive rights to near-Bush-level torture on younger siblings -- Bill bluntly stated, "Nah. She probably deserved it."
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Later, during children's time in the main worship service, our minister asked the kids if they knew how a lighter worked. Stephen -- who's like me 25 years ago (quiet, but smart as a whip) -- gave a fairly accurate explanation, then added: "That's probably the only good thing about my mom being a smoker."
In their pew, dad and stepmom rolled their eyes.