We gathered in the back of the room, for what some would call a class meeting. Each child got a copy of a student magazine that had the particular "sticky situation" we were going to discuss today. The situation was certainly a difficult one. It asks you to imagine you are only allowed to invite four friends on your birthday adventure. One of your friends, that you did not invite, asks you why you did not invite her.
There were mostly good, thoughtful responses. One girl responded that she would tell the friend to, "get out of my life!" She needed a reminder that this was a friend and that that really isn't a nice thing to say even if she wasn't a friend. But, rather than focusing on the one negative response, the most reasonable to me was: "I would tell them I could only invite four friends and that I would invite them next year."
Most kids gave a response similar to this one. Then I called on a little boy one might describe as, odd. He took the cartoon photo into consideration when giving his answer.
He rationed that he would not be in this situation in the first place. He would have definitely invited this particular friend because, well, look at her, she's hot!
I wasn't quite sure how to respond, but I didn't really need to say anything. His classmates simply pointed out that he was talking about a cartoon. Regardless of that fact, the kid is ten. Should he be thinking about hotness yet? Well, we all had a good laugh about.
After class, this boy made a point to explain himself to me. "You may think it's weird that I said a cartoon girl is hot, but I'm just a weird kid." Touche, little buddy, touche.
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