We had boogers for snack at the preschool today! Would you allow your child to work with me?
By The Horse
@TheHorse (203687)
Walnut Creek, California
March 9, 2018 8:31pm CST
I'll use a picture of my friend atop this post. She is now four (she was 3 1/2 when I took the photo), and told me today, as she was sitting in my lap, "I sometimes eat my boogers." I told her that there was a study from Scandinavia suggesting that eating boogers was healthy, but that it's not polite to do so in pubic. Our intellectual conversation continued, covering such subjects as bacteria, inoculations, and the saltiness and consistency of boogers.
Later, at snack time, we had pretzels and peas. We usually make letters with our pretzels, but I noticed that the peas fit perfectly into the pretzels, and looked like snot bubbles coming from a four-year-old's nose. We have about four kids with colds right now, and all of our children have been witness to some gnarly snot bubbles recently.
I announced, "Look what I have made!" One of the kids said, "It looks like a nose with a snot bubble coming out!" I said, "Exactly! I am about to eat a nose and a snot bubble!"
Of course, all of the kids made noses with snot bubbles, and the pretzels and healthy peas disappeared like magic. My co-teacher wrote on the chalk board outside the classroom, "We had boogers for snack today!" Of course, she added what the boogers and noses were made of.
Would you allow your 4-year-old child to work with me?
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@FourWalls (61315)
• United States
10 Mar 18
Of course. If nothing else, they'll learn some good music.
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@TheHorse (203687)
• Walnut Creek, California
10 Mar 18
And yes, she's played my mandolin many times. She and her friends love to sing. She was singing parts of The Riddle Song, so I printed it out and sang it with her the other day. "How can there be a baby with no crying..." There's an interesting video of Joan Baez singing this one early in her career, playing a slightly out-of-tune guitar.
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@scarlet_woman (23474)
• United States
10 Mar 18
i used to work for a navy daycare.
we never had snot bubbles,but the kids did wear their oatmeal half the time..
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@sprite1950 (30462)
• Corsham, England
10 Mar 18
You know I'm not normally squeamish but eating boogers really brings the bile to my mouth. Yes, children always find boogers hilarious and it seems it's a normal part of growing up as I know both my kids picked their noses .. thankfully my granddaughter finds it disgusting. However, in answer to your question .. yes I would have allowed my children to work with you
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@sprite1950 (30462)
• Corsham, England
10 Mar 18
@TheHorse I can tell you do from this discussion and others you have written.
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@TheHorse (203687)
• Walnut Creek, California
10 Mar 18
@sprite1950 I'm glad that silliness and learning go together with younguns.
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@andriaperry (116876)
• Anniston, Alabama
10 Mar 18
Absolutely! Why? you allow the kid to be a kid! Plus I noticed you told her it was not polite, so a few manners tossed in.
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@TheHorse (203687)
• Walnut Creek, California
10 Mar 18
@andriaperry Do you know when he finally stopped eating boogers, at least in public?
@andriaperry (116876)
• Anniston, Alabama
10 Mar 18
@TheHorse I know, I had a step nephew that ate boogers, when I asked him to stop and told him it was nasty he ate them more and faster for meanness. I told him I would never hold his hand, he busted out laughing.
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@Blondie2222 (28613)
• United States
14 Mar 18
Yes of course I would & if nothing else, it was healthy food that was eaten.
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@TheHorse (203687)
• Walnut Creek, California
18 Mar 18
@Blondie2222 I'm having a burrito right now.
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@bunnybon7 (50975)
• Holiday, Florida
18 Mar 18
thats so cute and funny. i guess you are a teacher in pre-school?
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@bunnybon7 (50975)
• Holiday, Florida
18 Mar 18
@TheHorse children always bring out the best in most of us. good for you
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@TheHorse (203687)
• Walnut Creek, California
18 Mar 18
@bunnybon7 I'm lucky to be one of those who look forward to going to work.
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@LadyDuck (454962)
• Switzerland
10 Mar 18
This is the right way to teach kids what it's correct to do and what is not. Denying is not teaching. Being too strict is wrong, the difficulty is teaching without being gross. I still appreciate young people and adult with good manners.
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