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....

Totally inappropriate....

for a small child to have a 'phone.

We daren't have house guests and have to hide all the sharp implements after DD studied Macbeth for GCSE. Very irresponsible of the school to encourage knife crime.

This made me laugh. I have 17 year old GS living with me, many a night when I'm in bed I hear him sneak downstairs on the prowl for food. I'd forgotten how much 6ft tall teenage boys can eat. I wonder if he got the idea from this poem 12 years ago?

I saw a child having an ice lolly in the sun today, too many E numbers. Very irresponsible, I lodged a complaint with 101.

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You're right OP, this time next year every child in the class will be a morbidly obese theif.

We did that poem in 1990 when I was in year 1!

op - give your head a wobble!

We need to start a thread with a reading list…

Taboo/inappropriate books and poems for kids:

1. whatever this one was
2. Squash and a Squeeze - animals aren’t free range
3. The Very Hungry Caterpillar - promotes overeating
4. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - slave labour, kidnap, poverty, bribery, gluttony, animal cruelty

please feel free to add more and state your reason

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Or they hear Albert and the Lion, you'll want to keep them away from zoos forever incase the poor child pokes the lion with a stick. That's probably such an old poem that many on here will never have heard of it, I've just realised.

So many parents seen their child's world through adult eyes, children love gore, mischief and poo, not necessarily together though, hence the success of Horrid HIstories etc..

Your child is going to be in education for many years. There's a whole lot more to come!

Has to be

I am inspired OP, I have decided to write a series of dull but morally uplifting poems and stories about very good small children who love nothing more than to feast on rice cakes and organic tofu while sitting beautifully at the table . Sometimes the children do really naughty things like deliberately not putting their shoes left/right under the bench (!) or brushing their teeth after the buzzer has stopped, I know, so daring and radical, but I don’t care, there is clearly an overwhelming need for my poems and stories, thank you for bringing it to my attention.

I think I will make a fortune, and am also anticipating being awarded the OBE for my contribution both to children’s literature and the moral well being of the nation. If any publishers are reading this please feel free to message me.

Wait until you find out about Bruce Bogtrotter OP, or god forbid Willy Wonka 😱

I am wondering why on earth anyone is doing homework in year 1 🤣

I wouldn't worry about it OP. More worrying is how many spiteful people exist in the world. Many of them seem to be on this thread.

Surely you don't have something as unhealthy as chocolate cake in your house

You cant be being serious 🙈🙈🙈

Just wait until they get to Snow White and the seven dwarves, its positively immoral!

Exactly this. And if your child isnt capable of understanding fiction or has issues with imagination then perhaps, OP, focus your energy on addressing that to help them.

Wait a minute books can be a bad influence on little kids! This reminds me of DD2 when she was about 4, one evening I put her to bed and she kept coming out of her room asking for a glass of water, then saying she was too hot, too cold, her teddy was hiding under bed - basically a whole series of reasons why she couldn't sleep, which was unusual for her.

The next day when I dropped her off at school I mentioned to the teacher that she might be a bit tired because she hadn't got to sleep until nearly midnight, and it was strange because she kept coming up with random reasons why she couldn't sleep. The teacher looked a bit embarrassed and said "That sounds exactly like the book we read yesterday at storytime" and we checked and sure enough, she'd renacted the whole story😂

😂😂😂😂 Surely a 5 year old understands the ideas behind the poem? If not maybe you've been blacklisting too many books??

Someone HAS to tweet this to Michael Rosen (Devil Incarnate) he would find it positively gleeful!

Used to absolutely love Dahl's Revolting Rhymes as a kid. I do not remember wandering around with a pistol in my knickers though..

Don't ever let her read the Tiger Who Came to Tea. She will completely misunderstand that tigers are actually dangerous wild animals and should on no account be allowed into the house.

Maybe you could ask that they do Barry Grant The Skinhead Poet instead?
A favourite of mine is the Earwig.

"How do you measure Earwig poo?
How can you measure what they do?
Are there scales to measure it?
Those little piles of earwig shit?"

(Have been re reading Adrian Mole 😁)

😂 ridiculous