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Saw this funny piece on
SDK blog taught l should share.
I've been teaching now
for about fifteen years. I have two kids myself, but the
best birth story I know
is the one I saw in my own second-grade classroom a
few years back.
Usually, show-and-tell
is pretty tame. Kids bring in pet turtles, model air planes, pictures of fish
they catch, stuff like that. And I never, ever place any boundaries or
limitations on them. If they want to lug it to school and talk about it,
they're welcome.
Well, one day this
little girl, Erica, a very bright, very outgoing kid, takes her turn and
waddles up to the front of the class with a pillow stuffed under her sweater.
She holds up a snapshot of an infant. "This is Luke, my baby brother, and
I'm going to tell you about his birthday. First, Mommy and Daddy made him as a
symbol of their love, and then Daddy put a seed in my mother's stomach, and
Luke grew in there. He ate for 9 months through an umbrella cord." She's
standing there with her hands on the pillow, and I'm trying not to laugh and
wishing I had a video camera rolling.
The kids are watching
her in amazement.
"Then, about two
Saturdays ago, my mother starts going, 'Oh, oh, oh!" Erica puts a hand
behind her back and groans. "She walked around the house for, like an
hour, "Oh, oh, oh!" Now this kid is doing this hysterical duck-walk,
holding her back and groaning. "My father called the middle wife. She
delivers babies, but she doesn't have a sign on the car like the Domino's man.
They got my mother to lay down in bed like this." Erica lies down with her
back against the wall. "And then, pop! My mother had this bag of water she
kept in there in case he got thirsty, and it just blew up and spilled all over
the bed, like psshhheew!"
The kid has her legs
spread and with her little hands is miming water flowing away. It was too
much!
"Then the middle wife
starts going push, push, and breathe, breathe. They start counting, but they
never even got past 10. Then, all of a sudden, out comes my brother. He was
covered in yucky stuff they said was from the play-center, so there must be a
lot of stuff inside there."
Then Erica stood up,
took a big theatrical bow and returned to her seat. I'm sure I applauded the
loudest. Ever since then, if it's show-and-tell day, I bring my camcorder -
just in case another Erica comes along.
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DeleteQuite interesting, maybe I will introduce this too but I wonder the outcome when it'll be about grown men and women hehehe!
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