Irresponsible text on homework

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DD1 is in Year 1 and got a weird text for her homework.

The text is about a boy who wakes up in the middle of the night and sneaks into the kitchen to eat chocolate cake.

AIBU to think this is totally inappropriate and irresponsible?.... These kids are 5/6 years old, they don't need to be encouraged to have this kind of unhealthy and also deceitful behaviour (the boy complains the floor creaks and is going to wake up his parents).

It's a Michael Rosen poem and the mother gets upset with the boy in the morning when she finds out. However the excerpt in the homework doesn't include this last part.

It's quite a fun poem but for older children who know better..... and maybe not something to show at school....

This kind of shit is exactly why I quit teaching

LOL.

You've got a serious case of concrete thinking there, OP!

Just because people read something or think it, doesn't mean they are going to DO it. In fact, the more we can think about naughty (or unacceptable, difficult) things and feelings, the less we are likely to blindly act them out.

Children's stories are full of naughty children, and bad women who are witches, and deceit, and violence, and betrayal, and lying, and cruel stepfathers and dreadful punishments.

It gives expression to all the destructive impulses and negative feelings that children of course have - and provides an outlet.

What child in fantasy doesn't dream of being able to hoodwink their parents, turn the tables and be the one in charge, and stuff their face with as much pop and junk as they like.

Should Shakespeare have not written Macbeth, in case people started killing off their leaders in an ambitious orgy of destruction?

Should he have not written Othello in case men start murdering their wives in a fit of jealous rage?

Don't ever let your DD read "Forever" .... 😂

My DGD is two and a half, and already she's had dozens of books read to her with mischievous (at best) characters in. How has OP's child got to around six years old without coming across one? Has she never been read to/taken to library storytimes?

...Now I really want some chocolate cake with fudgy frosting, chilled to perfection...

You are being utterly ridiculous and I hope this thread has shown you that you totally need to get a grip and lighten up.

not only that, I think it’s safe to say your daughters teacher is more than capable of teaching and is in fact far more qualified in that field than you! So but out!

Bloody hell OP. Keep your kids out of swishy swashy grass. They'll be a bear hanging around outside before you know it.

Oh boy. Wait 'til she gets to the one where William Carlos Williams

>>>>>>>>>> SPOILER ALERT >>>>>>>>>>>

eats the plums that were in the icebox which you were probably saving for breakfast 😧

Poor child.

Your post OP is the sort you of comment that gives us teachers a good giggle in the staff room.

Bloody hell 🤣
Sorry, but YADBU, stark staring crackers in fact lol
I used to love Michael Rosen poems at that age.

Holy Moly. As above… it’s going to be a long 13 years if you are finding offence with this!!

@Bumpsadaisie · Today 22:57

Don't ever let your DD read "Forever" ... 😂
Ah, past blast! Forgot about that.
Yes, would see Op's point if that one;
I remember reading it at around 11 or 12 with my eyes practically popping out of my head in places lol
I still can't take the name Ralph seriously now 😂

I feel so sorry for your 5 year old getting homework 😟

I loved that poem at school! And I never stole chocolate cake as a result of it. File this away as a PFB moment to look back on and laugh about in 20 years.

unhealthy and also deceitful behaviour sheesh 🙄

If this is your bar for the unacceptable just wait until you see the shit that Biff, Chip and Kipper get up to. Your head’s going to spin right off…..

I'm guessing OP is
a) not coming back
b) not buying Struwwelpeter for Xmas

I hope so too …?

Great answer! 🤣

What the actual f…?!?! I was expecting this to be about something sooo different

Goading again, do you get paid for it?

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You really are being completely ridiculous. Unclench. You are sounding like one of the professionally offended.

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I'd avoid Roald Dahl if I was you. If you are genuinely concerned about the poem use it as an opportunity to talk about behaviour and why we don't do certain things.