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!

Unbelievable some of the replies on this thread.
And that a whole load of adults are actually giving head space to this.

It'll be nothing. Children muck about like this all the time. Creative writing with nice handwriting? Someone's a budding author. But that's as much thought as I'd give it.

Was one of the instructions:

"Don't believe everything you read on the internet."

Can you share the full note so we can try and work it out? I am inclined to think it’s been put in the wrong bag fwiw. Of the examples you have given, with the exception of the last point, it could just be advice for a babysitter / carer.

Can you share the full note so we can try and work it out? I am inclined to think it’s been put in the wrong bag fwiw. Of the examples you have given, with the exception of the last point, it could just be advice for a babysitter / carer.

That's the obvious answer

It was pretty funny

Answers to comprehension questions on a story or some test paragraphs, wrong bag or picked up with other papers.

As a child me and my friends used to play adventure/mystery games and would totally have written this kind of stuff. And if an adult had found them and been freaked out we would have found it absolutely hilarious.

We have become so fixated on the need to see something sinister in everything, and expecting ten year olds to want to be on TikTok that we have lost sight of the fact that A: sometimes mix-ups just happen, and B: kids are, in fact, kids. With imaginations, which adults are doing their best to obliterate these days with our need to turn everything into something sinister worthy of therapy or a diagnosis.

A 10yo girl might have pretty neat writing, it's not likely to be an adult.
I used to do weird crap like this with my friends when I was that age. Now I'm a novelist 😁

But what is spooky about it? 🤣
Ffs everyone. Please calm down 😭. It’s a stupid note written by another child. What adult would write these things? COME ON!
Do not give it to the teacher. No one cares about the note or the toy , I promise you. The amount of toys and weird notes I’ve found in my children’s bags over the years is huge. If I put this much thought into them I wouldn’t have a life.
I doubt there is a hidden meaning, no one is gonna be traumatised. Do any of you actually know any 10 year olds? I’m confused lol

Looking at it again, it could be instructions to a new staff member, maybe a teaching assistant. The other instructions (which we haven't seen) might make that clearer.

Try not to worry, I have found some odd things written in my DD room aged 11. They and friends have some pretty wild imaginations at the age. I found a note that was totally totally freaky turned out to by the lyrics of a song

Sorry to break up the fun and spooks… Am I the only one who thinks you should be asking your son more information? It’s a weird note from potentially an unknown adult in his school bag with a toy and he is denying all knowledge.. if it wasn’t my daughter who is similar age I would be asking questions.

Sounds to like possibly a creative writing exercise or is it text from a children's novel or some such for an English lesson.

Maybe he's secretly into horror stories and might end up being the next Wes Craven or Tobe Hooper writing slasher flicks.

Either way, I'd not worry about it.

Looks more like dictation sentences to me.

It does, sort of thing you might do in an English lesson, therefore not a note and the sentences are not related to each other, that's why it sounds odd if you read it as a whole.

I think this was an exercise at school: either the items were dictated (the "milk, not juice" bit suggests this, to see if the child will remember to put a comma in), or maybe they were played the "Wear Sunscreen" song and asked to come up with some of their own.

Some little girl was praised to the skies for her beautiful writing or/and lovely advice, so has decided to make a gift of her work to your DS, because she likes him.

Oh x-posts with the last 2 posters

It sounds very much like tiktok videos where they say stuff like this, and including 'don't pick the purple flowers', 'if you see someone standing by a mirror, don't speak to them', 'if you hear your name, run'

Also look up 'creepypastas', and 'SPCs'

Because it sounds like some of those, made up stories in short form.

I usually teach secondary but when I did some year 5 cover (we're an all through school), the dictation sentences for handwriting practice were bloody weird. I remember one about planning permission and a council being blocked by protesters.

I also have a 13yr old son and his bag often contains strange notes, random items belonging to his friends and assorted crap he's found such as a piece of broken tile or some sharp metal he spotted in the undergrowth.

I wouldn't be freaked out at all by this.

It could be that he has accidentally put this note in his bag from a previous student that was sat at the same desk.
sounds to me they are sentence starters or headings to write a story.
just keep it or take a photo.

This is exactly the sort of shite MiL used to give my now adult DDs. Her "advice" was in many instances downright dangerous - like stand under a tree in a thunderstorm. DH went ballistic at her for giving the notes to the girls without at least checking with us first, especially give that the advice was total bollocks. In her defence (and she's no longer with us) MiL grew up in the 1920s/30s in NE Europe and wasn't known for keeping up with things.

We share the same SOH 🤣🤣🤣🤣

This brings back hilarious memories, as it sounds exactly like the 'rules' my friends and I wrote when we started a secret gang. We knew a secret gang needed rules but we couldn't think of many, so just ended up all pitching in rules from our various homes. I think we even had one about cleaning out the hamsters weekly.