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....

Oh I loved that poem when I was younger, my dad used to read it to me all the time!

Thanks for bringing back that lovely memory ❤

(and yes you are being overly precious-it is a wonderful poem and you need to stop worrying about everything)

I cannot believe how precious some parents are!
I used to work in a Primary school office and we had a wanker of a reception Dad send an irate email to the Head as Dad's precious little Timmy had accidentally brought a book home from the library which was more suited to an older child. Wanker Dad attached photos of illustrations and circled words he didn't think were suitable for precious Timmy and strongly suggested we remove the book from the library - needless to say the Head, Reception teacher and office staff were mightily amused and Wanker Dad will now be known for this for the rest of precious Timmy's school life.

Really? Good Lord, get a bloody grip.

I had a TA once who took me to task about reading Little Rabbit Foo Foo to my class. She thought they might all start bopping animals on the head with a mallet.

I love that! "Bopping them on the head!" (with actions)

Sigh. Rosen again. The man is a menace.

OP, and I mean this nicely, CHILL YOUR FECKIN BEANS, YEAH?!!

It's a POEM. What's more, it's a Michael Rosen poem designed to make children laugh. Pop the video on Youtube of him reading it and watch her crack up every time he makes the ridiculous Mmmmmm sound of eating. It's pure joy for little ones!

Stop taking everything so literally!!

You are so massively unreasonable that I can't work out if this is a joke or you are seriously that uptight. Jesus, it's an incredibly popular Michael Rosen poem. My 5 year old ADORES watching Michael Rosen read it aloud on YouTube. In fact, he was super excited to find a MR book and CD in the library this week because he loves the poem so much.

FFS. If you're going to get all precious about this then god help you (and your kids) in the coming years

Christ 😆. YABU but you know that now I'm sure. We have this constantly on dd2's year group what's app. Never had a hint of it for dd1's a lot seems too have changed in a few short years

Midnight feasts / kids sneaking about / kids doing the forbidden is a common theme in so much of children’s literature. If they know they aren’t allowed to do it at home then why would they do it after reading a poem? It’s not irresponsible of the teacher to assume your child knows not to take things from the fridge at night without permission.

😂

Are you okay?

🤭

I work in KS1 and agree that that that poem is far too abstract for Y1 children to really get to grips with. It's written from the perspective of an adult reminiscing about their childhood which they really wouldn't be able to grasp.

The perspective of an adult but aimed at dc - target age around 5-7 but enjoyed by most

It's rare that you see such a united response! Deservedly so though. Please relax and enjoy the fun bits of school experience OP - there's likely to be actual things to worry about at some point.

Please lighten up before the teens! YABU.

Bollocks to the rules!

Please don't take your child to see Matilda...

Are you upset because your child didn't know what chocolate WAS, OP? (Having been fed intravenous, organic pureed hummus for the entirety of their five years so far?)

Surely a joke — surely. I mean fgs.

But if anyone really WAS this bereft of grips I imagine they might currently be working on a haughty follow-up post about how disappointingly unhelpful, childish and rude all of these replies are, and how this thread has only gone unanimously against them because we are bullies and it’s a pile-on.

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Remove the stick from your nethers OP.

I was in a pigs mood today, this has cheered me the fuck up!

Deceitful behaviour ah ha ha ha ha ha ha classic!

Op, you’d better hide the Mallory Towers books from your dd - the midnight feasting that goes on there will curl your hair!!

In fact, I hate to tell you as I’m sure you’re already clutching your pearls, but most of Enid Blyton’s work contains a lot of eating sweets, drinking ginger ale and generally doing quite dangerous things without telling parents!

You’d probably be better to ban all books from here on in!

Serious though, get a grip, you’re being absolutely insane.