To Brighten Your Day

To Brighten Your Day

So, I work at an elementary school.

Today, the instructor was teaching the different variations of Cinderella.  (There’s over 900 recorded, apparently.)

A point she was making was that there is no such thing as a boy story or a girl story-even though media says otherwise-because we should let everyone enjoy whatever stories they want. (Within reason, this was for little kids.)

So, obviously, the little kids at first are like, “NUH UH, THIS IS A GIRL STORY”, but they quickly warm up to it when she says, “You’ve all read dog stories, right?  But shouldn’t only dogs read it, cuz it’s a dog story?” etc.

Anyways.

So, she was like, “So if you see a boy reading a book about...flowers..what do you say?”  To get them to come up with responses for how to deal with that.

But IMMEDIATELY these two little first-grade boys pipe up.

“Hey, I like flowers!”

The kid sitting next to him turns to him.  “Hey, I like flowers, too!”  They grinned at each other.

“Everybody likes flowers.”  And they high-fived.

And the instructor and I are just dying.  A) because it’s super cute.  B) because her point was made and C) we couldn’t have coaxed anything better out of them.

Kids are cute, it made my day so I hope it makes yours, you may continue scrolling.