SuperChic pulled a good one at school today. She freaked out her teacher by pulling a pocket knife out of her backpack. Yes, I said a pocket knife.
Ok. Calm down, don’t get all, you should pay more attention to your kids, I can’t believe you even left that in reach, on me.
It was a swiss army knife attached to a set of keys hanging on the hook by the front door. A set of keys I touch maybe once every six months. So them not being there, I wouldn’t have noticed for a long time.
She took them to school, for I don’t know what reason, she just thought they were a set of play keys, I guess. She couldn’t get the knife open. I couldn’t get the knife open. She also took her glow in the dark care bear.
The teacher apparently was a little shocked when she saw the knife on the keyring. I don’t really know what she said or did. I’ll find out tomorrow when I go get it from the school. I do know she took it off the keyring and the gave the keys back to SuperChic, and told Rapunzel to tell me that I had to come and get it, because knives aren’t allowed on campus. DUH.
Maybe she thought SuperChic had had enough of Jesselyn picking on her. Maybe today was going to be the day she stood up for herself. You know, kinda like this:
“Jesselyn, give me back my Care Bear.”
“No.”
“Give me back my bear or…or…or… I’ll stab you!”
“No.”
Stab-stab-stab.
I can totally see that happening, can’t you?
SuperChic and I had a little talk. And I mean little, literally. I said you don’t take knives to school, and she said ok. I don’t think anything more needs to be said or done.
And honestly, we have enough pocket knives around that if she did take off with one, I’d probably never notice. But she couldn’t get them open.
SAJ says:
Oh boy. Fun times for you at the school. Maybe once they meet you they’ll be cool with it. I think I know the pocket knife you are talking about and isn’t it pretty little? Like a nail file almost?
I also wanted to add that the glow-in-the-dark Care Bear made quite an impression on BB after SuperChic let her sleep with it that one night. She asked for it several nights after that. And she doesn’t even usually sleep with a stuffed animal!
March 19th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
Carrie says:
I guess it isn’t funny at all, but I am laughing a little. I remember the days when it was just expected that all the boys at school would have a pocket knife, so if the teacher needed something opened she’d ask one of the boys. Maybe not at SuperChic’s age, but in upper elementary. We freak our kids out way too much about things like that.
In high school most of the guys would have their hunting rifles in the back of their truck. Can you imagine that happening today? One guy even brought his gun into school for a book report *l*.
March 20th, 2008 at 4:39 am
bethany actually says:
Oh my goodness. I am glad you guys don’t live in Omaha, because the schools there have a ZERO tolerance policy about weapons. SuperChic probably would have been suspended or expelled! I knew a guy in junior high school who took a steak knife to school in his backpack one day because he’d been getting beaten up. He was an honors student who had never been in trouble and who had been getting bullied for weeks and the school hadn’t done anything about it. He didn’t even use the knife–it fell out when he took some books out of his bag, a teacher saw it, and he got hustled to the principal’s office and expelled. Crazy, huh?
March 20th, 2008 at 6:27 am
BeachMama says:
Funny, I remember when we all wore Swiss Army knives on our belt loops to school. I know we live in a different world now, but it just seems so strange. Especially because those darn things are so hard to open. We have a few, but I can’t open them
March 20th, 2008 at 10:09 am
familymclean says:
My gosh! I remember being in school and we all had swiss army knives, they were the cool thing to have. We needed them to carve our initials into the school desk and into trees and pic-nic tables at lunch break.
Times sure have changed, though I do understand why!
Your chat with super chic sounded perfect…like she had any intentions of evil, ha,ha;)
March 20th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Anna says:
oops, I just remembered to fix my link to my new blog.
March 20th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
DeeJay says:
Ah, being called to the school cos your kids were “bad.” Been there, done that. Once because the janitor walked into the boys room and my 4th grade son was standing with 3 other boys …all of them peeing down the floor drain. (That one was hard not to laugh at in the principal’s office.) And once because my daughter got mad at another girl, pushed her in the hall and other girl fell into a display case and broke the sheet of glass. We had to pay for that and had a long talk about consequences of acting out in anger. She was in 3rd grade.
I’m sure there was no malice intended with SuperChic…sometimes things look cool and the kids want to share with their friends. Sounds like you handled it just right. Seriously…taking each child and their personality into consideration before punishment is something only wise Mama’s do.
March 22nd, 2008 at 5:43 am