I work for an afterschool program that takes care of kids from two to six in the evening. My kiddo therefore gets to attend for free. It's a pretty good deal.

Occasionally, my child will run up to me on the verge of tears and tell me something like ,"DAD MY FRIENDS SAID I DONT KNOW KARATE". My child has never attended karate in their life. I am a bit flabbergasted at this but I am able to mumble out ,"did you show them you can do karate?"

Now , I am aware I have made a mistake. it's not enough to just do some kicks and jumps and say HAIIII-YAAA at a tree. My kid needs to demonstrate her lack of karate ON people. So that was a fun conversation on the way home.

Another kid (I'll call him big-Gus) was physically and mentally UNABLE to break away from construction toys. To the point where we would announce snack and Big-Gus wouldn't acknowledge us at all. Then later he would sit and cry at us saying he was hungry.

So I had to change how the toys were brought out so he couldn't get any until he ate something. Big-Gus Also loved rockets and space and would ramble on and on about space facts that were 100% not true. But he was entertaining to listen to.

Anyway, kids be crazy.