Found this bloody weird note….

[Radicalpiloti]

Bit of a strange one. I finally got around to emptying my son’s schoolbag and amongst the utter rubbish (including a Batman figurine he insists isn’t his!) there was an envelope tucked inside with just “For You” written on it.

Inside was a list of instructions. Things like:

• “Don’t forget to lock the back door at night.”
• “Children should never sit on cold floors.”
• “The blue cup is for milk, not juice.”
• “Be careful who you trust with secrets.”

I asked DC where it came from and he just shrugged and said, dunno. Asked on my parent friends WhatsApp and they had no idea.

DH says I’m being dramatic and it’s probably nothing, but I feel really weird about it

i don’t even know what I’m asking but, wtf!

I concede the point. I am 52 and my kids (well apart from my youngest) didnt really grow up in the world kids are in now.

And thats what makes me worry for my youngest who is 14. At least the older ones (five of them, all 20+) didnt have the tiktok type stuff going on. Silly pranks were the ice bucket challenge etc, it wasnt the kind of thing that you would expect to see in an 18+ movie (thinking Saw etc)

😂😂😂😂

This is brilliant 😂😂👏👏

Mind you, he always was an annoying little bastard. I’m not surprised.

That sounds like a list of things people remember their grandma saying. It’s not a list on instructions as some are long term advice, others are reminders before going on holiday. I wouldn’t worry. It’s probably from a school assignment or something he picked up somewhere accidentally.

CONSEQUENCES

• “The baby went out the back door and is lighting a bonfire.”
• “The children froze solid when they sat on the floor.”
• “The juice is acid and it ate through the blue cup.”
• “Turn on the TV, it's telling my secrets.”

Please send help

They’re usually “indy” games made by a couple of people and with very little info available about them.

Oooh, The Ink Black Heart! Terrible things will happen to the inventor couple, whose game concept has been hijacked by manipulative weirdos with very bad motives. Guaranteed.

Could it be a list of mnemonic devices to learn, something like 'Richard of York gave battle in vain'?

Your post gives me Christopher Pike flashbacks...

Meh, every time I help my 8-12 years old children do a deep clean of their rooms and belongings I find reams of notebook paper with bizarre things written on them. Just harmless fun with siblings/friends, that age lives very much in their own world. I wouldn’t think twice about it.

It could be anything - a classmates grandma with dementia writing herself notes and it falls in his bag.

An English task.

Kids playing a word game.

We need all the sentences, it's obvious this has some missing because the password isn't complete. Can you just post an image of the full note please OP?

😂😂👏

What’s scary about those instructions, seem quite sensible to me, apart from the milk and juice. That should be “Don’t drink milk, it’s rank!”.

Sounds like a secret code or chain letter, just ignore it unless his behaviour shifts at all to suggest he is being picked on etc then you can gently bring it up again.

I guess this is because I don’t have kids so I don’t see the weird and wonderful things they do behind closed doors but frankly I find it terrifying!!

I regularly have friends kids for overnight stays or even for a few nights when they go away (I’m an amazing friend!) but if I came across a random superhero figure and that note then I admit I’d be pretty freaked out. I might consider calling an exorcist but I’d do some intensive scrutiny first, whatever happens I’d be locking my bedroom door at night 😂.

It’s bad enough I have a black cat called Salem who appears to be practicing some sort of voodoo at 2.30am on the dot every morning (standing on the arm of the sofa on his hind legs howling) but I couldn’t have some sort of Damian child on the premises as well. I live in the middle of nowhere so couldn’t risk the two of them ganging up on me with no witnesses.

I hope everyone is right OP and this is just kids games, it sounds like weird kids who would write a note like this but it’s likely to be innocent. I would certainly be locking your back door though and hiding the key!

Right, here’s my theory as someone who works at a school, I don’t know if it’s right! Children take part in RSHE lessons, these are more about social lessons/friendships/health/community etc. I wonder if the teacher has asked the class or small group as part of one of the lessons ‘what rules do you follow? Or what things keep you safe etc’. Perhaps the objective of the lessons was about following rules etc someone’s clearly wrote their work on a piece of paper or perhaps a TA has scribed for a child.i don’t get the scary thing everyone is talking about.

It's fine. He's fine.
Stop worrying.

I thought it was!

It is weird, but I would say it’s a hand written note from a mother to her child, and somehow it’s been put in your DS’s bag.

The Batman figurine probably belongs to the same kid.

Perhaps they’ve got similar bags and there was confusion. Kids can end up with all sorts.

Completely overreacting OP. It would barely register with me if I found it

The list rings some bells for me. I wouldn't be surprised if it was linked to a text they were reading at school and there was an activity whereby the teacher created resources in the form of these letters containing advice (taken from the book) and the kids have to open the envelopes and discuss the relevance of each piece of advice, then write their own.

Put it in the bin, OP, and move on.

Do you have a blue cup OP? It is strange but would like to know what rest of note says

Errr, not sure what I am missing & I am someone who is easily spooked. The list of instructions are perfectly normal, you shouldn't sit on cold floors and be carefully who you trust etc!

sounds childish, so it has come from another child

This is exactly what I thought
It sounds like advice from a grandma especially not sitting on cold floors you know to avoid piles
Does he have a grandma?