BS: genuine things children wrote

Subject: BS: genuine things children wrote
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 26 Dec 12 - 09:33 AM

My husband has a co-worker who asked to borrow some impressive rocks from our rock collection to show to her Cub Scouts. So he picked out some beauties, and the event was a success. The Scouts each filled out a sheet that said thank you, and each wrote what his favorite thing was, and why.

I thought Mudcatters would enjoy seeing what some kids of today are thinking and how they express it.

1. Shark tooth, because it's the oldest thing I ever heard of and it looks really cool.

Jacob

2. Gararapod (gastropod) because it is the tip of a snail. Thank you.

Wyatt

3. Quartz crystal, because it's like a diamend but, it's not.

Drew

4. Volcanic ash, because it's very interesting and cool.

Matthew

5. Quartz crystal, because I like how it is shinny, and I like shinny and looks like a diamen.

Braiden

6. Volcanic ash, because it is bouncy and it is cool.

Lucas

7. Granit, because we have it on are counter top and it is worth lots of $.

Frank

(This came from the den mother's son, whose father had impressed upon the kids that the granite countertops in the kitchen were expensive and not to be damaged.)

8. Shark tooth. The shark tooth was my favorite because I really like shark teeth.

William

9. Shist, because it's sooooooo cool! And it prevents plants from growing. (?)

Abhi
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It surprised me that two boys liked the dull, gray volcanic ash best. It reminded me that kids are into feeling things, handling things, and notice textures a lot.

I enjoyed their courage in trying to spell 'diamond.'

Subject: RE: BS: genuine things children wrote
From: SINSULL
Date: 26 Dec 12 - 09:42 AM

What is "shist"? LOL

Subject: RE: BS: genuine things children wrote
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 26 Dec 12 - 10:05 AM

Schist, a metamorphic rock. Abhi anglicized it to 'shist'. I looked it up, and I see that it means 'split or divided,' and it's related to SCHISM.

It came from the French, and before that, the Greek. I had always assumed it was a German word.

Subject: RE: BS: genuine things children wrote
From: Ed T
Date: 26 Dec 12 - 10:41 AM

A few years ago, a kid sent a letter to my workplace. It said, please send all the brochures you have to me, because I like to get mail.

Subject: RE: BS: genuine things children wrote
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 26 Dec 12 - 12:36 PM

Delightfully straightforward, Ed.

Subject: RE: BS: genuine things children wrote
From: Michael
Date: 27 Dec 12 - 06:09 AM

Thread creep: This reminds me of our local Geological Society; they hold their meetings in a pub because thy like to get gneissly schist.

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: genuine things children wrote
From: kendall
Date: 27 Dec 12 - 07:09 AM

A friend's 3 year old girl to me said, "I can wash my own body." Obviously a milestone for her. She is delightful.

Subject: RE: BS: genuine things children wrote
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 27 Dec 12 - 10:20 AM

Spike Milligan related how he bought his very young daughter a toy telescope to look at the moon and she said to him ' when we find our wings, we'll fly there forever ' how good is that ?

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: genuine things children wrote
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 27 Dec 12 - 01:05 PM

Pretty good, I'd say.

Subject: RE: BS: genuine things children wrote
From: gnu
Date: 27 Dec 12 - 05:27 PM

I taught a "course" in geology to young kids, Boy Sprouts or some such. Just four one hour classes... the very beginning basics. My buddy dreamed up the idea and I thought it was a good one. I had 100 samples of "rocks" and we went through them one by one. One kid, about 10 years old, said, "Wow! I didn't know rocks are so cool!" He now has his Master's and works in mining exploration. I think THAT is cool!

The same guy asked me to give a talk on animal droppings to Cub Sprouts. I did. In prep, I gathered a bunch of them. I began my dissertation with, while holding up a lagre plastic bag with a lot of samples of various animals' droppings, "I am here tonight to teach you guys about shit." A "conference" ocurred VERY quickly and "shit" wasn't a term used again that eve. Nor was I ever invited back to educate prospective biologists or any others about any kinda shit.

Subject: RE: BS: genuine things children wrote
From: Ed T
Date: 27 Dec 12 - 05:47 PM

I had a friends daughter that was a "summer tour guide" at a museum that has many young kids visiters. I asked her what was the strangest question she was asked. She replied that a young girl came up to her and asked, "are you my Mother". She also added that a a very young boy said to her "my penis looks weird" (not sure what that was all about, as I asked no more).

Subject: RE: BS: genuine things children wrote
From: GUEST,999
Date: 27 Dec 12 - 06:58 PM

Kids are completely unabashed. Years back I had two grade three kids ask, "How old are you?" I replied, "I'm 38." One fellow looked at the other and said, with wide open eyes, "Wow! How do you get to BE that old."

Great remarks, leeneia.

Subject: RE: BS: genuine things children wrote
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 28 Dec 12 - 03:54 AM

I got a thank you card from my very young nephew many years ago after he & his younger sister had visited me - "We love you & we love your bears" (teddy bear collection)

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: genuine things children wrote
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 28 Dec 12 - 11:03 AM

Hello, gnu. I had a similar experience to yours with the mining geologist. I gave a pretty crystal to the daughter of a lawyer I worked for. Twelve years later I encountered him, and he told me that her fascination with the crystal and how it could have formed led her to a career in chemistry.

Two years ago I led sessions on geology with young Girl Scouts. One thing they loved was looking at a book about ancient life and then searching rocks I had brought for the fossils to match.

Subject: RE: BS: genuine things children wrote
From: Bert
Date: 28 Dec 12 - 04:20 PM

Seeing as this thread has morphed to include things that kids have said; I'll include this.

Kylea was playing about and I said "You're silly"

She replied, very seriously, with that infinite wisdom that three year old's possess; "Everyone is silly sometimes"

Subject: RE: BS: genuine things children wrote
From: gnu
Date: 28 Dec 12 - 04:30 PM

That is priceless, Bert!

Subject: RE: BS: genuine things children wrote
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 28 Dec 12 - 04:51 PM

When I was four, two very naughty boys from down the street used to tease me mercilessly. My mother heard me shout at them "You have got GLASS HEADS!"

Subject: RE: BS: genuine things children wrote
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 28 Dec 12 - 04:54 PM

When I taught in primary school, a girl wrote a story in which "..the fields hummed with incest...". I've also many a time had knights mounting their hores. And I think I've posted before little Angela's letter to Santa asking for a pair of tits. (Did she get them I wonder.)

Subject: RE: BS: genuine things children wrote
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 28 Dec 12 - 11:22 PM

I think I've posted this here before - but not on this thread!

back in the 70's a friend reported how her little girl said in a typically loud 2 year-old voice in the middle of a party "My mummy has long titties"

Subject: RE: BS: genuine things children wrote
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 29 Dec 12 - 06:23 AM

LOL Sandra! My mother was equally mortified when we were on a London bus and a black man boarded it. I'd never seen one before and shouted "Look! Look Mummy! A chimney sweep!" (As you may know, I married a very black man in later life, and he's lovely!)

Subject: RE: BS: genuine things children wrote
From: Newport Boy
Date: 29 Dec 12 - 01:10 PM

Anne taught in primary school and one girl's news writing included "Daddy smacked mummy's bottom last night". When Mummy received it at the end of term, she asked anxiously "That hasn't been pinned on the noticeboard in the staff room, has it?"

Another little girl with her mother at the start of school: "Mummy forgot to put her nightie on last night, didn't you, Mummy!"

Replying to a question from a 9-year old after sex education classes:

"How long does intercourse last?"

"Well, Jean, it's a bit like dinner really. Sometimes you're in a hurry and you're finished quite quickly, and sometimes you like to relax and take a bit longer."

Phil

Subject: RE: BS: genuine things children wrote
From: John P
Date: 29 Dec 12 - 01:30 PM

A young nephew was in school and the teacher was talking about the difference between iron and steel. His (truthful) comment: "Iron is what mommy does. Steel is what daddy does."

Subject: RE: BS: genuine things children wrote
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 29 Dec 12 - 07:46 PM

Back before the dawn of prehistory, I was attending the University of Minnesota. I thought I wanted to be an art teacher. (The "I thought" is a different story, which I won't go into at the moment.)

In a Teaching Methods class, preparing my classmates and me for our upcoming Practice Teaching assignments, the Professor told us that we might need a little humility, because the "mere kids" we would be teaching "are not so mere as you might think."

He related the experience of one of the student teachers (we'll call him Jim Jones) the Professor had sent out, and the subject was something to do with geology, in a third-grade class. The teacher in whose class Jim was to work told him that "Johnny Smith really loves geology, and knows a good deal about geological formations and such. He'll love this!"

The following occurred:

Mr. Jones, the student teacher, held up a geological sample to the class and said, "See this stone? And see that crack in it?"

Johnny Smith bounced up and down in his seat, excitedly waving his hand for attention.

"Yes, Johnny?"

"That's no stone, that's a rock!" said Johnny. "And that's no crack, that's a fracture!"

Poor Jim Jones ran to the back of the classroom and whispered hoarsely to the critic teacher: "What do I do now?"

As our Professor assured us, "Kids are not so mere as you might think!"

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: genuine things children wrote
From: Bert
Date: 30 Dec 12 - 02:05 PM

Ah yes Eliza. When Chad was a small boy he pointed to a black baby in a shopping cart and said loudly (these things are always said loudly aren't they) "Look! a real tar baby".

Subject: RE: BS: genuine things children wrote
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 30 Dec 12 - 02:52 PM

I didn't add that while my mother nipped my arm and hissed, the black man grinned from ear to ear, and I thought how attractive he looked, all white teeth and black face. I was only four or so, but I've often wondered if that memory led me to explore West Africa later in life, and ultimately marry an Ivorian!