For those who are around small children all day...

[Baitball Blogger]

...is there any spontaneous role playing that children do that makes you think twice?

A couple of times I have over-heard the innocent comments from children at play and it has driven the point home that we don't all share common experiences. One time I heard the eager voice of a (obviously white) child, shout out, "Can I be the black person, can I be the black person!" And another time I heard a female child tell another female child, "But it's your wedding day. You have to give yourself up."

It's been a long, long time from the days when the best part of playing wedding day was running with a flowing veil of toilet paper pinned to your hair.

[teach1st]

1. Three times, I've heard this

I teach in high-poverty schools. Three times I've heard children playing and the girls saying something like "you have to let the boy do whatever he wants to you." It seems that this is what some girls are taught.

The character Pennsatucky was told pretty much the same thing by her mother in Orange is the New Black, season 3.

[Baitball Blogger]

2. Yup.

That's along the lines of what I was thinking. It's one thing to teach young girls to save themselves for marriage. It's another to raise them with the idea that marriage is a total surrender of self.

[Warpy]

4. That was heartbreaking, no wonder she's a meth addicted psychopath

She had to be told rape is wrong.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. But, did she learn? Looks like she's still trying to keep that relationship alive.

[Warpy]

3. One thing that sent my parents into gales of laughter

when I was little was when a playmate came over and wanted to play "church." Ok, I said, I'll be the priest.

My sermon ran "Building fund, gimmee money, gimmee gimmee gimmee hole in roof more money money money..." and the longer I kept it up, the louder they laughed. Of all the baloney in the typical Sunday sermon, that was the part that stuck in a kid's head.

I was never the bride playing wedding (should've taken a cue from that when I got older) but I was the one who stripped beds for bedsheet veils and trains stuck into the back of one's skirt or shorts. Here comes the Bride, why is your Mama freaking out as the sheets get dragged through the backyard full of mud?

Verisimilitude was everything.

[mia]

6. I see groups of kids(4-5) on the playground chasing each other, getting tagged, falling down,

and then pretending to be out of it or dead. Other kids come rushing to their aid and mimic CPR routines such as feeling for a pulse, listing for a heartbeat, and thumping on the chest. Then the wounded one giggles, opens eyes, jumps up, and the whole thing starts all over again. It seems like all of the kids wants a turn at getting caught. One day, one of the kids said. "Don't worry about me. In three days I'll rise again."

[Baitball Blogger]

7. Sounds like something Trump will say after the election.

"Don't worry about me. In three days I'll rise again."