Recently, my articles have been very serious, and I thought that I would write something on the lighter side of the daycare world. While discipline and transitional issues are biggies in the childcare world, it is also important to focus on the things that make it all worthwhile-the kids and the funny things that they say.
Over the years, I have been blessed that on days where nothing seems to be going right, and I am tired from taking care of sniffly noses, parents forgetting to pack lunches, and the disagreements over who had the block first-someone will say something that makes me laugh out loud.
One of these days happened recently on a rainy Tuesday. One of my preschoolers came up to me with a toy during clean-up time that didn't belong to our center, and because I knew that the kids are usually the best source for information, I asked some of those around me if they knew who it belonged to. Casey, one of the kids smiled a grin that showed me she was about to tell me something that wasn't entirely the truth, and said, "it's mine Miss Carrie."
I turned to her and said with a laugh, "Casey, I don't know if I believe you. You have a devious little grin on your face."
She immediately brought her hand up to her chin and began to rub furiously. "I do? Where?" She asked me in all seriousness.
Another funny story comes to me via Lisa Heyn (now Lisa Lam), one of the teachers in the school that is attached to the daycare center where I work:
"In 4th grade history we're learning about Dynasties of China. There was one female emperor (Wu Zhao). She moved to the emperor Taizong's palace as a teenager because he thought she was very beautiful. As we were reviewing today, one of my students was confused about this whole concept, because Wu Zhao married Taizong's son, Gaozong. He was wondering why she married her own son. So I was delicately explaining how she lived at the palace, but was not the emperor's wife when one of my students piped up and said:
"Right, because she was his corcupine."
I was dying from trying not to laugh out loud!"
These are just some of the daily things that these blessed little ones say each and every day. I am sure that many more stories are running through your heads right now-- So... please feel free to add to the discussion below.
For a newer article on funny stories about childcare, view my new article here.
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