Things I Never Thought I’d Say

I have been subbing (substitute teaching) for the local school district for about a month now, and these “Littles” keep it real! I’ve said things I never thought I would say, especially since I’m not around my own children and their littles any longer. There’s the ever-present “Use your indoor voices, please,” “No eating the Playdoh,” and of course, “No talking,” but then there are the following bits of instruction too:

“No running on the tabletops!”

“Please don’t chew on her ponytail”

“Don’t put that in your mouth! (pausing), Or up your nose!”

“No, I cannot buy you a Chromebook”

There are also the things they say that pull at my heart strings:

“I wanna go home!” said while sobbing great, big, watery, streaming-down-the-face, tears

“My mom and dad live in separate houses now. They don’t fight much anymore”

(The simpler, fixable one) “My dinosaur’s head fell off!” also while sobbing great, big, watery, streaming-down-the-face, tears

And my most recent favorite:

“You’re prettier and younger than my grandma, and skinnier too!”

This is quite the experience that I never thought I would ever have, and it all started with the purchase of a pair of shoes.

But I’ll save THAT story for another day.