Heart Breaker

This kid is notorious for becoming instantly remorseful of his bad behavior when he has to suffer consequences. He was being super spastic and I had had enough so I told him to leave the group and go put his head down at his table spot, after moving his name to yellow on our behavior chart.

kid(age4): Awwwwwww! But I don't want to mess around! I want to make good choices!

me: I want you to make good choices too but right now you need to have a time out.

kid: (crying mournfully) You broke my heart...........You just really really broke my heart!

I had to walk away from him because he wouldn't stop carrying on. I left him to another staff because I had to take my next group to our second room for the next round of activities.
20 minutes later when I returned to the main room to get my next group, he was still not over it.

He saw me and started wailing again: Aren't you SO SORRY about how you BROKE my HEART?!

Golden Hair

kid(age 4): I reallllly like your hair today.

me: Thank you, that's a nice thing to say.

kid: Yeah, because my favorite color is golden.

Cartoon Hearts

kid(age 4): You know what? I like you!

me: Aww that's nice, I like you too.

kid: If we really like each other...that means that little hearts will come out of the tops of our heads.

Just Kidding

Back story: The previous afternoon this boy (age 4) had been messing around in the bathroom, making silly noises and jumping around instead of getting in there and taking care of business. So I went to check things out and when I asked "What's going on in here?" He nonchalantly started crouching down into the position of getting ready to start a race as he asked "Hey you know what?" And when I warily said "What?" He totally farted at me and then jumped back up. I told him that was rude behavior and he was messing around too much and that he'd have to move his name to yellow on our behavior stoplight. This brought on a big fit and he cried and screamed "I hate you!" at me and turned on my coworker who hadn't done anything "And I hate you too!"

So the next morning when his mom dropped him off she told him he needed to apologize.

kid: I'm sorry I wasn't nice to you yesterday.

me: Let's try to have a better day today and make good choices instead of messing around and try to have nice words ok?

kid: Yeah....and any way I was just kidding.

me: But it wasn't funny, that was unacceptable behavior.

kid: Let me tell you what kidding means. It means I'm really sorry.

Watch Out for the Shoes

kid(age 5): These are cop shoes and they can arrest people.

me: Oh yeah?

kid: Yeah! Like if when people are speeding too fast!



His shoes were the light up variety and had a police theme to them I guess?

Preschool Religion Debate

During handwriting the kids were talking about random things and got on the topic of religion a bit I guess? Over the general gibber jabber I heard the following.

kid(age 5): God doesn't exist any more.

other kid (age 4): Yes he does.

kid1: No he doesn't because Jesus died.

kid2: I saw God once. It was at a football game.

Jet to the Zoo

kid(age 5): You know what? A long long time ago when I was a baby I flew a jet to the zoo. And it went REALLY FAST like ffffffffffffwooom. And I puked. Yeah it went so fast that I threw up. And then it went neeeerrrrroooom and I was in a jet crash and I almost DIED! I was in the hospital because I had a broken leg.

Wet Paint

Our building was getting repainted inside, and our classroom's bathroom had just gotten a coat of white primer. We were still using it, just had to monitor the kids to make sure they didn't touch the walls.

I walked a kid in and reminded him to just go potty and wash hands and stay away from the walls. He was concerned it wouldn't work.
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me: Remember, Bob just painted and it's not dry yet, so don't touch the walls.

kid(age 5): (sitting on toilet and looking around at the walls wide-eyed) But what if the WALLS touch ME?