I’ve done something really stupid

[Pashpash24]

I’m sure everyone has done something really stupid before as a parent, but I think this has to be the stupidest thing I’ve ever done. My DS came skipping out of school yesterday telling me how he wanted to make some tickets for the show was doing with his friend at playtime.

He said it was going to be a pretend wrestling show (alarm bell did not ring at wrestling show) and him and his friend had done a script and they.
He had his first drama lesson the other day so I thought he must be wanting to put a show on. He started making some tickets after school yesterday but said he’d not made enough.
So I offered to help him and we made some tickets and printed them off to hand out. He said he wanted to call it the (name) & (name) fight show.

Why oh why did that not ring a bell in my head I’ll never know. So I have proceeded to print off “fight show” tickets for my 8yr old to take to school to hand out to his little friends because he couldn’t wait to do his “show”.

I get a call at 11am from the School safeguarding officer telling me we cannot promote violence in school and she has personally had to go round the whole school collecting the tickets back from the pupils.

Like I completely get it and I genuinely cannot believe that my stupid brain allowed me to send my son into school with tickets saying that. I feel like the worst mum ever 😩 I nearly started a royal rumble in my son’s playground. Anyway. Just thought I’d share my stupidity on this Friday afternoon. Hope you all have a lovely weekend. From the stupidest mum of the day x

Keep the tickets for a funny story when he’s older!

This has me howling 🤣 you sound like a lovely mum xx

This is hilarious . Sorry, OP, I am LOL on the bus.

Just write an ‘OMG I am so sorry, what was I thinking? ‘ e mail to the teachers.

My DD told the sharing circle at nursery in response to what can your mum do that makes you happy (amongst the other children with stories of how their mum gave the best cuddles / told stories / made cakes )that her mum could drink vodka through her eyeball ( DH joking with me after we were watching kevin and Perrie - ) nursery staff were very interested in if this was one of my hidden talents !! 🙈

Aw this has really made me laugh. Really sweet of you bless you 😂

That’s so funny op - and those are great tickets that he’s made/you’ve helped with; bet it would have been a great show 😂

this has just removed me of being called in to talk to the teacher when ds2 was about 7 - apparently they had been given a thing to do some creative writing on for their end of topic (Explorers and new places) and were supposed to spend a good chunk of the morning writing about whether they would like to go off to explore space (they’d done Neil Armstrong going to the moon) or be on board a ship in the 17th century going off to discover America or Africa etc (can’t remember precisely which but they had been stuffing).
DS has written ‘Are you mad? I would not like to do either of those things. Both of them are really dangerous and you’d have a good chance of dying with the space rocket blowing up or having a problem or dying from getting a disease if you had to be a crew member on one of those boats, and if. It, imagine how horrible it would be in the dark having to row hard all the time, not getting much food, and the stench would be awful as everyone would just do their pees and poos on the floor d there weren’t proper toilets. So no way would I do either of them’.

Luckily his teacher found it quite funny - ds was (still is!) very literal so when she had asked them to write which they would like to do, he took her at her word - instead of realising it was a rhetorical question and it didn’t matter if he didn’t like either option, he still had to write about one of them! Think in the end Ds chose to be on one of the explorer’s ships ; he has a very vivid imagination and a great vocab which he used to great effect going into the horrors of what life would be like on board one of the ships. 🤣

Please keep the tickets they will be an amazing memory in many years to come.

I’d love to know how the conversation went with the teacher. What did you say to her to explain it? I’d have totally blamed my kid by claiming they said it was a drama thing!

That is an OTT reaction from the school. Kids pick up on stuff being rude really quickly. Maybe we should tell them normal words are "naughty" as a sneaky effort to broaden their vocabulary.

Also reminds me of my brothers 31/2 year old DD, who he accidentally taught to flick the Vs at other drivers. They were in the car and some bloke was giving him the verbals so my brother flipped him the two finger salute and told him to fuck off. She would sit there going "fffffk uff" and viciously waving the two finger salute. Fortunately, other drivers couldn't hear her and her salute was more a slightly sideways version of 🖖 and ✌combined, but the intention was definitely there. You had to be there but it was piss funny coming from the most angelic looking little girl ever.

This has made my day - sort of thing I’d do 😬

Brilliant - god I miss having young kids. I hope the man in question is a suitable match ❤️

😂😂😂this is hysterical! You sound like a great mum and I’m sure you’ll all laugh about this for years to come. Love the tickets!!

You will definitely be the talk of the staff room 😂

Best Mumma ❤️😘

🤣🤣

Mum of the world award for you!! He will FOREVER tell how a mean teacher took all the fight tickets your printed for him and his friends. I genuinely think it will be one of his best memory, that you did that for him.

Be proud! And also don’t do it again or the school will worry 🤣🤣

This is hilarious. Honestly don’t let it bother you, you don’t sound stupid at all x

omg thank you so much for the laugh. It’s good to know we can all make stupid mistakes. I hope you’re over it now. Just remind yourself you’ve given us all a great start to the weekend 🥰

Sorry but I actually think this is hilarious and something which you can reminisce and laugh about in years to come x

Oh, it is such an easy thing to do. I bought my 7 y.o. S-GD a new pencil case jus as a small present as she was starting year 3. I happened to choose one decorated with characters from something I later learned was called 'Hazbin Hotel'. To my embarrassment the school telephoned her mother after a 'Show & Tell' featuring said pencil case. Turns out HH is kind of adolescent cartoon with some dark and questionable themes wholly innappropriate for her age, further that she had been accessing the programmes on her Nannie's tablet. 'No good turn &c...' Now I take time to do a little research online before buying presents for the children.

This did make me chuckle 🤣
I mean and really you can't avoid violence it's all over the TV & internet,

I must have got married at least six times at her age 😂😂😂 love this! My lunchtime supervisor gave me away once!

I hope all these supportive messages have helped you feel better about this ‘incident’ OP.
Schools can be over the top sometimes and this feels like one of those occasions. They have to be so careful I guess.
Your tale is brilliant in its innocence and you will all still laugh about it in years to come. You sound like a super fun and supportive mum.

At least it was the kids putting on the wedding, I remember my teacher in primary school putting on a pretend christening for a doll she picked the parents and god parents for the baby and done the whole thing for us I still have a picture of me and my fellow godparent holding the baby 😂

Part of my role is to telephone parents from school, I would have loved to have made this call, once all the staff had stopped laughing. Honestly, in my school the majority of us are parents and we cry laughing over the funny and innocent inappropriate things children say/bring into school. One of my favourite ones is finding a packet of 20 fags and a lighter in a child’s pocket - I asked child she said my Mum needs to give up smoking so I’m helping her!

I’m howling laughing. Just for a laugh you should send out a message on the class WhatsApp group and say.

So old Mrs Perkins at the school has got wind of Jack and Theo’s fight and has refused to let it happen on school grounds. Therefore the Promoter has taken the decision to take it underground and change the venue. The new Venue is our garage 22.00pm on Halloween. No entry without ticket.

(Actually don’t do this, but I’d love to see the parents faces).