Kids Keep You Humble
In one of my volunteer roles, I make copies for the second grade teachers at my kids' school. One of the regular assignments is a page which is photocopied on colored paper and then folded in half, making it look like a booklet.
During snack time today, I asked my second grade daughter if she noticed that I had copied this week's booklet on red paper, since the topic was firefighters. She gave me a funny look.
"You chose that color?!" Well, yeah, the teachers say to use colored paper, and I usually randomly choose, but I thought I'd be clever and choose red. Impressed on how well that fit?
"You should've chosen blue. Fire starts as blue before it looks red."
"Yeah," my son piped up. "And firefighters use water to put out the fire, so blue definitely would have been better."
Oh. There was one time I picked a color paper, looked at the theme later, and then realized I could've picked something specific. I reassured myself that it didn't really matter much.
"Oh, you mean when we had that story on frogs?" Um, yeah, that must've been the one. I guess I should've picked green. "You picked purple, Mom."
Gee, I'm glad somebody noticed my work . . . I think. :-)