and mawkish and schmaltzy and any other adjective for "overly sentimental" that you'd care to hurl at me from your thesaurus. Discovered today in kid #1's bookbag, a 3rd grade economics exercise:
The worker I'd like to be is:
Profesore [sic]
Human Resources:
student
boss
Natural Resources:
trees
stones
Capital Resources:
blackboards
books
plastic
Why?
Because my dad is one and I love him
Hope that your child will continue this ardent passion for teaching others (and loving you!). The world can always use more profesores. I can only hope my children will also follow me and the intellectual path. Sentimental - rightly so.
ReplyDeleteThird-grade economics?
ReplyDeleteBut that's just lovely, although I would be concerned that kid #1 seems to be learning Italian on the sly.
Aww. But I agree with Karl--grade three economics? What? Huh? Throwing the term "human resources" at a kid under 10 seems perverse.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Chris. It seems to me that Kid #1 is keeping two career options open at this moment: profesore, or Roman Emperor.
ReplyDeleteKarl: 3rd grade economics indeed. Indoctrination into capitalism starts early these days; by next year he is supposed to be managing an international equity fund.
JKW: it does seem perverse ... but kids that young are such sponges that in fact they learn it immediately. And this is at a public school.
Ohhh.
ReplyDeleteThat's just lovely.
Sniff.