A closed mind is a good thing to lose.

With all the election coverage going on, parents talk at home. If you are a parent, you may want to take note, student conversations at school often mirror what you say at home. I have a mental TMI (Too Much Information) file in my brain for some of these moments. Some I wanted to share on the election...

Child 1: "I heard Obama is getting rid of all the weapons in the world."

Child 2: "I heard that Obama is going to die like Martin Luther King."

Child 3: "McCain is so old that he is just going to die."

Child 4: "Obama kills babies. With a baby-killing machine."

Child 5: "Obama is going to change the flag AND the pledge. Oh, and black people don't have to pay bills 5 days after Obama is in office."

It has been a L-O-N-G week in third grade. I do not tell my students who I vote for (a lot has to do with a conflict of interest because they go home and tell mom and dad, it is easier to avoid the comments) and I tell them that I vote in confidentiality, so I don't have to disclose who I vote for. They pestered me for awhile, but it has subsided now. I just hate having to take some of those comments from above and detangle them, if you will. It's rough. Please be careful how you word things at home...students repeat what they hear. Trust me.

I am congested like it is no one's business. Thanks to Tylenol Cold: Severe, I can temporarily handle it. But ick...it's gross. I woke up yesterday hacking. I sat down next to my husband and said "Aren't I just so hot right now?" He just looked at me with his eyebrows raised. I guess this is a no? Haha!