Long time no write
I've discovered that I like kids. Before, I guess I was too close to the horrors of high school and what not, but I kind of miss the little guys.
Since January when I got laid of as a receptionist, I've been doing the lunch monitor/after school thing on Le Marchant, the elementary school where we use to play baseball and soccer after hours.
What was really cool is that I was in charge of story-telling. They liked scary stories and since they're all in grades one and two, I...don't know how scary to take it...
I ran out pretty quick. Hook-hand, Bloody-fingers, the Viper (the last two and funny), the one about the girl who stabbed a grave through he night gown and fainted when it caught because she thought the dead serial killer was out to get her.
After that, it was all history---Pompeii, the Franklin expedition, shipwrecks, the legend about the steel worker that got sealed in the Titanic, Salem witch trials. I think the school year ended just in time. The last one I told was a modified version of The Ring. They got me to walk around with my hair in my face like Sadako (Japanese version's better. The original always is. But that woman is DUMB!!).
Kids don't scare like I thought they would. They kept wanting me to go scarier. I thought I was pushing it with the story about the woman who got burned alive and hit by a train, but one of the six-year-olds apparently saw The Happening. At least, that's what Jason thinks. It had all the elements she describes---guy getting his throat slit and then cut all over, another guy in a wood-chipper. Her father turned white when I told him. Poor guy. But the kid wanted more and more violence.
On the one hand, at least the kid wasn't having nightmares. Violence is fun to them, in stories. But considering the stuff like those kids holding that poor girl hostage and beating her in Dartmouth, or the two girls that beat and put cigarettes out in the ears of that other girl in Jan, yeah. There is so a connection.
Not that every kid is going to turn out like that, and I bet there were other factors besides tv violence in those cases. And kids are a lot smarter than tv makes them out to be (You suck, Michelle of Full House). Still. That stuffs just wrong.
Now I have to think about more stories to tell. I think the stories may have been a fad and they'll get a new favorite past-time, but for once, after many years, I was popular in elementary school.
Since January when I got laid of as a receptionist, I've been doing the lunch monitor/after school thing on Le Marchant, the elementary school where we use to play baseball and soccer after hours.
What was really cool is that I was in charge of story-telling. They liked scary stories and since they're all in grades one and two, I...don't know how scary to take it...
I ran out pretty quick. Hook-hand, Bloody-fingers, the Viper (the last two and funny), the one about the girl who stabbed a grave through he night gown and fainted when it caught because she thought the dead serial killer was out to get her.
After that, it was all history---Pompeii, the Franklin expedition, shipwrecks, the legend about the steel worker that got sealed in the Titanic, Salem witch trials. I think the school year ended just in time. The last one I told was a modified version of The Ring. They got me to walk around with my hair in my face like Sadako (Japanese version's better. The original always is. But that woman is DUMB!!).
Kids don't scare like I thought they would. They kept wanting me to go scarier. I thought I was pushing it with the story about the woman who got burned alive and hit by a train, but one of the six-year-olds apparently saw The Happening. At least, that's what Jason thinks. It had all the elements she describes---guy getting his throat slit and then cut all over, another guy in a wood-chipper. Her father turned white when I told him. Poor guy. But the kid wanted more and more violence.
On the one hand, at least the kid wasn't having nightmares. Violence is fun to them, in stories. But considering the stuff like those kids holding that poor girl hostage and beating her in Dartmouth, or the two girls that beat and put cigarettes out in the ears of that other girl in Jan, yeah. There is so a connection.
Not that every kid is going to turn out like that, and I bet there were other factors besides tv violence in those cases. And kids are a lot smarter than tv makes them out to be (You suck, Michelle of Full House). Still. That stuffs just wrong.
Now I have to think about more stories to tell. I think the stories may have been a fad and they'll get a new favorite past-time, but for once, after many years, I was popular in elementary school.