The Golden Rule and lap dancing
The principal at Kid 2's school sent around a nice email the other day talking about the Golden Rule and wondering how many parents had actually had a talk with their kids about it. Hmmm. So I asked Kid 2. He pondered for a moment and said hopefully "Silence is golden?" When I finished laughing to myself, I told him the rule and what it meant and he looked at me like I was crazy. "Well, yeah, it just means to be nice." I think he really wanted to say "Duh Mom" but we've outlawed the use of "duh" in the household so he couldn't. When I told Kid 1 the Silence is golden anecdote, she laughed and replied "Silence is golden, duct tape is silver." I guess that's what they all yell at the movies when the "Silence is golden" message is flashed on the screen. That's the clean Kid 2 story. Here's the other. He came home the other day and announced they'd had a substitute teacher that day. "She had reall