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Teachers. Admit it. This is a perk of the job isn't it?

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pagwatch · 16/12/2010 13:22

Just got dds work home as she finishes this week.

In the bag are some things that are mounted and have clearly been on the wall either in the classroom or (gulp) the main corridors or halls.

In one she provides a slice of homelife which is mighty embarrassing and makes us sound like total wankers. She also talks about drinking wine. She is 8.

You find these things don't you, with a silent shout of glee. I have believed this since my mother told me about turning up at my school and on the wall was a picture I had drawn of her and dad 'playing in the bath'.

Come on. You might as well admit it....

Blush and Grin

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StealthPolarBear · 18/12/2010 18:24

harpsi - not all, just 2 of us so far :)

Georgimama · 18/12/2010 18:23

I'm quite happy thinking it is shit to give a 15 year old fags even if that makes me "tight arsed and boring".

StealthPolarBear · 18/12/2010 18:23

I have to admit I agree - not keen on the thought of parents encouraging their teenagers to smoke. I think disapproving acceptance is one thing but handing them cigarettes is another.

PixieOnaLeaf · 18/12/2010 18:22

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harpsichordcarrier · 18/12/2010 18:22

But it's just her story, not a cue for judging.
Really, what it gained by all standing and pointing (virtually) at serephina and going (effectively) YOUR MUM WAS A RUBBISH MUM!
Seriously, I don't see the motivation for it.

DontLetTinselDragOnTheFloor · 18/12/2010 18:22

Yay! Way to go, ruining a hilarious thread by being judgy. Hmm

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Georgimama · 18/12/2010 18:20

Which is 14/15, not 15/16. I used to be a teenager, I've heard much worse already. It's still pretty crap. Of course you can think of worse things. So what?

PixieOnaLeaf · 18/12/2010 18:18

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blackcoffee · 18/12/2010 18:12

YEAR 10

FairyTaleOfNewYork · 18/12/2010 18:11

lunli, says year 10.

NormaSknockers · 18/12/2010 18:11

No, it says she was in year 10. Read the post properly.

FairyTaleOfNewYork · 18/12/2010 18:11

yr 10, so 15/16? 16 was the legal age to smoke up until a few years ago. hardly shocking

Lynli · 18/12/2010 18:10

Sephrenia, your post says you were 10.

BrandyButterPie · 18/12/2010 18:09

DD1 likes to pull her top up and say "do you like my boobies? They are little boobies. Mummy has big boobies." It is actually quite funny to see people's reaction to that one, lol.

She also decided that tonight, while my daily mail reading auntie and uncle in law were visiting, was the time to ask why she couldn't marry her sister, because ladies do sometimes marry ladies and mummy and daddy already lived in the same house when thay got married.

Sigh.

TheYuleLogLady · 18/12/2010 18:02

DD2 alos told her reception teacher I was in a band and was on the TV singing Grin

TheYuleLogLady · 18/12/2010 18:01

Helping at playgroup: Small boy in the loo:

'DDsMum - I have a small willy. it's a nice willy but it is small.'

Me; 'um, yes dear'

Smallboy: ' yes it is small. nice and soft but small. my daddy has a big willy. really big. do you think mine will be be big when i'm big like daddy'?

Me: 'hmmm, yes dear'

StealthPolarBear · 18/12/2010 17:52

"'my mummy says she wants to be in prison.'
me - 'oh, erm, OK. Gosh (etc etc)
'she says even murderers in prison get to eat their breakfast in peace.'
god how I empathised with that woman."

PMSL

sephrenia · 18/12/2010 17:41

I guess this is one area where we won't agree then Georgimama. I didn't want £2, I wanted cigarettes and to be given the £2 in cash would have felt insulting whereas having the cigarettes meant she was treating me as the adult I was becoming which, at 15, means the world.

Georgimama · 18/12/2010 17:36

Your mother giving you cigarettes is shocking. Giving you £2 for babysitting would not be, giving you fags is. My judgy pants are sitting quite comfortably on my fat arse on this subject.

sephrenia · 18/12/2010 17:35

valiumshimmer My mum knew I smoked and knew from when I was 13. She tried to put me off smoking by getting me to smoke a pack of cigars without being sick and said if I was determined enough to do that, then I had the right to make the choice to continue with it. I smoked them and so she decided that rather than have me going begging strangers to buy them for me, she would bargain with me instead so we both got something.

TrillianAstra very true!

NormaSknockers · 18/12/2010 17:34

sepherina don't have it deleted, I thought it was a fab story! My father bought me cigs when I was 15, used to let me smoke in the house too.

sephrenia · 18/12/2010 17:32

harpsichordcarrier - We've always been a very physical kind of family and playfighting was always kinda rough and it was purely an accident and it's something that my mum and I still giggle over because of how I said it to the teacher even though to us, it really wasn't a big deal.

And yes Georgimama she paid me with them. She had to work 16 hours a day, had nobody else to turn to that she could trust with us while managing to avoid my biological father who beat the heck out of her for 7 years and was still hunting for us. She couldn't afford a proper babysitter and so I stepped up and was happy to do it.

What's so shocking about a 15 year old babysitting for cigs anyway? It's not like most people my age weren't smoking or anything and I was a darn sight cheaper than a registered babysitter.

TrillianAstra · 18/12/2010 17:27

I think that's a funny story Sephrenia. Lesson learned, never play-fight while holding a knife!