Kindergartners: 2 / Teens: 0

Word for Today - Wet!

Tell me boys & girls, can you say "wet"? 

Great! Now, what does "wet" mean?

Right, right, very good!  What a smart bunch of kindergartners I have here today - wet does mean "not dry".  Can you think of some things that are wet?

Yes, the ocean is wet, good Patrick.
Yes, a swimming pool is wet, too, Jody.  Outstanding!

Now tell me, Patrick - if you wore your swim suit out in the pool or the ocean, would it be "wet" or "dry"? 

Right again - it would be wet.  Now class, what do you think your Mommy would tell you to do with that wet swim suit?

Hang it up to dry?  Suzie, your mother is a very smart woman!  You are a smart girl as well.  Tell me, Suzie, would you do what your mother told you & hang your swimming suit up to dry, in some sort of logical place, like say, over the shower door or something like that? 

Or, would you instead say to yourself, like a 14 year old I will not name:  I have a better plan!  What does my mother know anyway?  I am going to take my very wet swim suit & I am going to stuff it deep into my drawer full of swim suits, excuse me, let me clarify that, my drawer full of DRY swim suits.  The reason I am going to do this is to bypass all of those unnecessary steps - like drying the swim suit, putting it into the laundry to be washed, getting it back when my mom piles my clean & folded clothes on my bed & THEN having to put it away in this very same swim suit drawer anyway!  Besides, it will be a while til my mother notices that for some inexplicable reason, all of my swim suits & snorkel shirts smell like clothes rescued from a flood in a very old & moldy house!

No, no, no, Suzie, I am not mad at you!  You would NEVER do such a STUPID thing!

I'm sorry, class, I didn't mean to raise my voice & stamp my foot.  I apologize.

You are right, Danny, I did say the "S" word.  I was upset, but that is certainly NO excuse.  I apologize again.  Sometimes grown-ups do make mistakes.  But let's get back to our lesson.

Okay, back to wet.  Christopher, I ask you - if it was raining very hard & your bedroom windows leaked whenever it rained & you had to put a big beach towel under the window to soak up all that pesky rain on your floor, would you think that beach towel would be "wet" or "dry" afterwards?

Excellent, Christopher, wet it is!  Now, class, what do you think your Mommy would say you should do with THIS wet towel?  Go ahead & shout it out!  Everybody!

HANG IT UP TO DRY!  Oh my GOODNESS, this is surely a class of future ROCKET SCIENTISTS that I am dealing with here!

So, since you all said "Hang it up to dry!", I take it that none of you would do something like this:  instead of hanging the towel up to dry, in some sort of logical place like over the shower door, you would, like a 15 year old I could mention, drag the soaking wet towel ACROSS your bedroom floor (leaving a wet trail), OUT into the living room & leave it there, in a sodden PILE, for no particular reason except that since the wet & dripping towel is no longer in your room it is NOT YOUR PROBLEM?!  And when your mother asks you why you did this you say, "Well, I didn't know what else to DO with it!"?!

I'm shouting again?  Oh, you're right, Irene, I AM shouting again.  No, no, it's not because of YOU, class, you all have been very good!  It's just because I am a Mommy, too, like all of your Mommy's...

Your Mommy pulls her hair out too, Michael?  Glad to hear it!  I am relieved to know I am not the only one!