storys children tell

[dmo]

i have 2 brothers i look after aged 6 and 8

monday they were both off school with a bug and yesterday just the 6yr old was off

teacher comes out with the 8yr old looking very concerned and asked how the 6yr old was??

fine thanks i said prob be back to school tomo

teacher looked shocked and proceeded to tell me that 8yr old had said 6yr old had been out on sunday and was hit by a car and broken his leg

the class had made cards for the 6yr old and he was mentioned in prayers and 8yr old had been given hot chocolate and looked after all day because of the shock

i was laughing so hard while teacher said this

Oh dear, that's both really funny and really awful at the same time, that's one big porky he's told!!

a 3 year old boy I look after told me that his mother was 16!

DS (who was 5 at the time) and a little girl of the same age that I look after were playing with small plastic toy soldiers. The girl asked if they were in Afghanistan. DS said, no they were made in China but they are in England now!

We often have bring our neighbours boy (6) home to ours after school. On way home recently he went into great detail about their dog being sick and dying and how sad everyone was. Immediately called his mum when home to see if there was anything I could do and the wee tinker had made the whole lot up.

I once had a child in my class (6 yo) tell me that her bus driver ran over her dog this morning. We read a special book that deals with this, we comforted her all morning, I had her talk to a counsellor.... then rang her mother to offer my condolences over lunchtime. She was "we don't have a dog starexpat".

I have had a mindee tell me in great detail just how daddy got cross and threw her down the stairs and ranted and raved. On the verge of calling social services I remembered Daddy was working away.

Another mindee had told the teacher - very convincingly that she was now living at mine, teacher came out and asked me about it.

My own son told me and daddy when he was little that Aunty C who had been looking after him that weekend that she had locked him in the cupboard under the sink and made him stand in the bin. To this day his still insists it happened. Aunty C was horrified - we found it hilarious. Son is now 13.

One mindee has a very active imagination and Twinkle the Donkey gets up to all sorts at the weekend.

P age 3 told her mummy and daddy that i was having a baby - they bought me a card.

Bless our young children eh!