You fathers (and mothers) out there will no doubt have come across some interesting things in your kids’ schoolbags (if you have the pleasure of cleaning them out, that is).
Stuff like:
- Someone else’s yoyo
- That piece of carrot you put in their lunchbox 3 months ago
- Incendiary devices
- Love letters
- Notes that last year’s teacher sent home to you … last year…
Well, I pulled out a sheaf of papers from Youngest Son’s bag recently and was going through them. My reasoning? There might be some work he’s completed I can affirm him on. (C’mon, say it with me: “What a good Dad”).
What I actually discovered was the sheet below.
Now before you look closely at it, let me explain that my kids attend an indepent Christian school, hence the biblical reference in the sheet.
Here’s your challenge: Look at the sheet and tell me what the heck-a-rooney it’s trying to say…
What’s the message here??
5 responses so far ↓
themolk // Mar 24, 2007 at 9:39 pm
C’mon Pete, surely you can work it out (you Nazi-invader-of-personal-spaces-under-the-guise-of-being-a-good-dad)… Mum and Dad are an ass, or even a donkey, and that’s the only reason God can speak through them to their children…
Pete // Mar 25, 2007 at 8:49 am
Yuh. This is pretty much what I was hearing.
Leah Maclean // Mar 26, 2007 at 11:01 am
I would have through that if some kid said that he heard donkeys speaking in God or Mum and Dad’s voice then there would be a whole load of other questions being asked
Pete // Mar 26, 2007 at 11:27 am
Heh heh.
Pete // Mar 28, 2007 at 1:47 pm
So I guess the morals of the story include:
1. If you’re a communicator (and we all are), sometimes it doesn’t hurt to check the actual message you’re sending BEFORE you send it.
2. Parents are the functional equivalent of asses and it would take God’s direct intervention to actually make what they say worthwhile.
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