“I am sorry to have to tell you that your son has done something awful again today. He put a worm on a girl’s hair. He also then sucked a worm….”

Oh man this just cracked me up!

After reading a tense email telling me in no uncertain terms to talk to my son about his disgusting behaviour, I promptly burst out laughing at the tone my son’s headmistress used in her email to me.

It was so comical! Petty, but comical!

Because as we all know, 10 year old boys are sweet, quiet, clean little darlings who should shudder at the mere thought of picking up a worm and certainly not chase girls around the playground.

Whatever next? Tree climbing? Mud pies? Simply shocking I tell you!

However I decided to at least reprimand him for the worm-in-mouth thing. That was a bit gross…
Although as my Mum pointed out, what do you expect when kids see shows like Survivor and ‘I’m a celebrity, get me out of here!’

It’s was a valid point. Still I wanted to at least be consistant and firmly mention that perhaps worm foolery on school grounds is not the best idea.

And then hubby came home and said
‘What’s this I hear about worms?’ in a big booming voice before they both collapsed in fits of laughter.

I gave up at this point and made supper.