Every household with children has rules for appropriate behaviour. Use your inside voice. Keep your hands to yourself. No running in the house. For a time, because of inappropriate behaviour, we really had to drill our rules into our son and his friend, we’ll call Greg (names changed to protect the innocent).
At the start of every play date, they had to recite The Rules. It was within this context that Greg’s mother took him to Pirate Day at the Marine Museum. About 15 kids were sitting on the floor in front of the big pirate boat, their parents standing in the back, listening to the Pirate leader tell them what Pirate Day was all about. The leader explained that before being allowed on the boat, there were rules to learn.
To engage the kids, the leader asked if any of the kids had rules that they had to follow at home. As if a fire was lit beneath him, Greg’s arm shot straight up, wiggling his hand in excitement, in the kind of way keen kids do when they know the answer.
”Keep your pants on, and no touching penises”, Greg proudly announced, to the horror of his mother.
Well, those are the rules….
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