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Kathryn Mayer • Writing Out Loud

I write stuff down. writer • humorist • activist

Best homework answer ever

November 6, 2015 by Kate Mayer Leave a Comment

kids get real showing their workMy very literal kids are rule followers, and remain so to this day, often to their detriment. Like no food allowed, means my kid won’t enter the gym even with a bag of measly Skittles hidden in his sweatshirt.

Sign says, don’t walk, we’re not walking, despite no cars in sight.

No kids allowed kept me and rather attractive husband out of many a bars at many a ski lodges over the years.

Children’s menu, movie ticket prices — these kids sucked the life out of us, and the cash out of our wallets.

But never more than on homework assignments. (Disclaimer, not kid3. She’s all about minimum work/rules/restrictions.)

They follow all directions on the test and homework, and when they were in school, they often didn’t understand why they were penalized over the infamous show your work instruction.

“Show your work” was often asked of them in the classroom, as it should be, and I recall more than one meltdown complete with tears, when especially Kid1 or Kid2 frustrated to exhaustion freaked out. “How can I? It’s in here!” knocking their head and arguing how stupid the homework-test-project was.

Introducing this kid, the hero of Facebook this week. This kid was able to get it out from between their ears, and put it on the paper. Just. Like. That.

Bravo braniac. Bravo. Thanks for setting social media on fire, and giving us all a smile.

little boy explains his thought process
Photo courtesy @imugr. More at irishchck14.

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An irreverent storyteller with a foul mouth and big heart, Kathryn Mayer (aka Kathy and/or Kate) is a writer, humorist, and (former) activist writing out loud with humor and grace about little life moments with big ripples, including the space between parenting and aging parents, social issues, angsty reflections of midlife, and, sigh, gun humpers. Still. Sometimes a big deal, sometimes not Mayer is a national award-winning columnist, according to the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, and her essays have been recognized as Voice of … Read More Here...

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