When you think your kids aren’t paying attention. Think again.

I was recently on a field trip with one of my kid’s classes and I heard a conversation while in the bathroom between two students that had me chuckling.

Girl A to Girl B: My Mom doesn’t know why our teacher is so obsessed with this crap.

Just like that.

Perhaps this girl or boy, (wait, I already said it was a girl and I was in the bathroom with them so it would be completely inappropriate if it was a boy) has a lovely Mother who wanted the kids to focus more on spelling and less on bee keeping and during a state of utter confusion and maybe even while under duress she said something like, “Wouldn’t it be great to spend a little more time on spelling now that you are all bee keeping experts?” and that statement morphed into something sinister.

Later I heard from Ellie that a friend was spending the weekend planting trees around their property because as she explained, “Her Dad wants ‘privacy.’” She used air quotes when she said “privacy” which made me think the act of planting had been described that way to her with a focus on building a fortress and not for the other reasons people plant trees; beautification or saving the environment or for a place to put those wooden faces meant to stick on trees so they look like people.

Ellie: I guess her Dad likes to pee outside.