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oh my...

I had literacy group with Zoe and her reading buddies this morning at school. The SA teacher pulled me aside before we'd started to show me what Zoe had been up to earlier in the week. They had read a book about insect eating plants, venus fly traps and the like. Anyway one of the activities after was for the kids to make up their own plant. Zoe called hers a 'biteasaurus' and it had mouths coming out of the stem and looked great, very cool picture. But thats not what the teacher wanted to show me.

In the books the plants had little talking bubbles with things that the plant might say if it could talk....just to impart more info in a fun way for the kids. So Zoe had drew one of those. Do you know what her plant was saying?

F$%^ off. You can blow up you b???a

I kid you not. She even had the spelling correct, except for the last one, we couldn't quite make that out....

I have an inkling of idea where it came from, particularly when she told me what they'd been discussing just prior to drawing. But my stomach is still in knots.

I have to wonder that even though she doesn't see it, that she's aware of crap happening around this place. She's been defiant, and a little angry. But it could be many different things though. Kids live with much worse things than their parents going through an emotional patch, which is what this is really, she doesn't see any of it so she's not copying us, not that we speak to each other like that anyway! It could be that school is boring her, and it is....it's being looked at by the principal. It could be that she's picking up on mum and dad being upset at times. It could be she is just getting over being sick. It could be a stage. It could be the influence of a friends son <----my guess is this one. But I just don't know!

I do know that I honestly never expected to see something like from her. Well not until at least high school! I mean I never even knew she knew how to spell it for crying out loud....I've gotta be off, have pies to sort and distribute then a training session for the brekkie program starting at the school soon...