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Conversation with my 5 year-old upon return from kindergarten orientation this evening;
"Mom, when you get old and die of a heart attack, will your ghost let us bury you?"
"Well, I would prefer to be cremated like Qui-Gon Jinn"
"Mom, mom, mom, why do you want to be burned up and turned into a skeleton?"
"The fire should be hot enough that the bones are all broken up. I want you to make a diamond out of my ashes and wear it as an earring."
"Mom, mom, mom, but, when you die, of a heart attack, will your skeleton talk to me?
"I don't think so."
"Mom, mom, mom, I want to bury you under the grass."
"I don't want to rot. I want to be jewelry."
"Mom, mom, mom, I don't want your skeleton to talk to me, I don't want your mouth to move."
"I don't think that's going to be a problem."
"Mom, mom, mom, do you know what I am going to put in your mouth when you are a skeleton?"
"What?"
"Diet Coke!"
Kelly ... that's soooo cute ... and I have to admit ... it had me laughing ... so where is the heart attack coming from ??? what do you think they told your son at the orientation ?
Thanks for sharing the conversation
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/ your son ...
Doreen
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Man, the preparation they want kids to have for kindergarten these days! Spell your name, count to 100 by 5's and what to do with your mom's corpse....
my first day of kg was filled with helicopter parents speaking about the recent (and i mean, 2 wks ago) change of NO meat allowed in school lunches... fine, i'm on the lunch program. whoops, turns out it doesn't start till 9/17, i'm in trouble! add to this we're now not allowed nuts cause a kid in another class is allergic, and no sesame seeds either. ummm, this is a jewish school. hummus is made with sesame paste (tahini), how on earth can you take hummus away from jews????
i can't wait till 9/17 and i'd have rather been talking about disposing of my corpse...
sorry for the rant, seemed an appropriate place to do it
What are helicopter parents? So does this mean that you are not allowed to send meat or nuts to school with your children in their lunches? Or that they will not serve prepared lunches with meat or nuts? That's a pretty limited protein list...kids are always demanding beans and tofu. Cheese, eggs, I guess. Does school not start until 9/17 or school lunch service?
Kelly, I've got to ask. That beautiful Pommes Vapeur pot you've posted a picture of? Is that where you plan to spend eternity? Will it accommodate a diet coke can along with your, ur, cremains?
So... Instead of your family coming to visit your grave and leaving flowers... They periodically change out the Diet Coke offertory? ::buddum bum::
The conversations you get into with precocious kids can be pretty mind blowing at times. My favorite quote from Stephen Hawking was about his love of talking to kids:
Something to the effect of: "They ask the best questions, because they don't know enough to know *not* to ask the really important ones"
I think you did a wonderful job of handling that one Kelly... I can almost hear your voice when you told him you wanted to be jewelry instead of rot... ::laughter::
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kellly, sorry to confuse you
helicopter parents hover above their children and never let them out of arms reach (partially out of fear that nobody can be trusted to raise their kids as well as they can), his class was full of parents and grandparents who were shocked they couldn't spend the day!
school started today, lunch service starts on 9/17. no meat is the latest campus rule (brown bags and cafeteria) and the nuts is a "request" by a parent of an allergic child apparently, their 5 year old has not mastered not eating from other children's plates to the point that even the kg the child is NOT IN is being "asked" to not bring nuts. or sesame seeds (which by extension, no hummus)
thank god my son is not a picky eater, you should hear the terror from the picky eater parents. and he gets sooo much meat/protein at home that a veggie diet is almost ideal for me... i just don't want to be making it
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