I haven't written in a while! I've been very busy. My daughter Libby has also been very busy in the first grade - learning about the middle finger and alcohol. Yup, you read that right.
The first incident was that Libby was playing "got your nose" with her little friend, and somehow her middle finger stuck up in the air and the other girl yelled out, "Libby put up her middle finger!!". so the teacher sent libby out to the hall i guess, and came out and asked her "Libby why did you stick up your middle finger?" and My innocent girl was like "what's the big deal?" She didn't know! So she didn't get into trouble or anything, the teacher just explained that the middle finger wasn't very nice. So I got a good chuckle out of this whole story. Until I got to thinking, what kind of 7 year old knows what the middle finger means? What kind of world do we live in? I love that my girl didn't know. Makes me feel like I'm doing something right.
The next incident involves a little song that Libby learned on the bus that ends in the words, "thats not all, they were drinking alcohol". I dont know what in the world kind of song this was, and I'm glad Libby is only on the bus for about 2 minutes. I asked Libby, "do you even know what alcohol is?" and she replies, "isn't it something you put in a car?"
Again, i love my girl for being so innocent. But i did explain that alcohol is what is in mommy's wine and daddy's beer, and it's only for adults to drink. I dont want her to go around thinking alcohol is something you put in a car!!
