The honesty of children...

A little tidbit from a conversation I had with one of my students today.

"When I grow up I'm going to be big like my sister. She's big like you and Ms. Lindsay. But she's not as fat as you."

I mean, in all fairness, I am fat. But, good grief that was harsh! This little girl is one of my favorites (yes, I have favorites...any teacher who says they don't is lying) but she has been a little too lippy, honest, snobby, whatever you want to call it. This came after she announced quite loudly that she thought another child's artwork was ugly. Actually got my attention just to say that she thought someone's person was ugly (we traced our bodies and the kids painted the cut outs).

Also out of a students mouth recently,
"I'm going to kill you down."
Erm, wtf? I chose to ignore that one because the child has been acting a little attention starved lately and has been acting out just to get it. He had pulled it on my co-teacher the day before saying such things as "I'm going to beat you with my knucklehead.". (Yeah, I don't get it either haha).
I love my students, don't get me wrong. But seriously, there are some days when they need to be lucky I'm not their mother. Because when a student does that teacher Melissa says "That's not nice. You need to go sit down and think about what you said." Or, if it's really bad, "Are you kidding me?!" And, when Avery does that, mommy Melissa says "If I EVER hear that come out of your mouth again I am spanking your bottom! Hard!" lol, poor Avery.