13. nom_of_your_business:
I was going to pickup take out food around after school time. There was a lady and a small boy around 5-6 standing by the parking lot. The boy was drinking a Coke, when then he turned and tossed it about 15 ft over by a tree. He looked at me and I said “Are you just going to leave that there?”. His mother whipped around and asked me if I was talking to her son. I replied that I was asking him if it was his intention to leave his litter by the tree. She went off about not talking to her child. There was a back and forth for about 15 seconds. Meanwhile the boy realizing he was wrong went to go pick up the can. The mom firmly told him no, but he said it’s ok and walked over picked up the can and walked back to his mom. She snatched it out of his hand and promtly threw it back by the tree. Stared me down and dragged the boy across the street.
14. StevenHuffman:
Being at the autopsy of the 2 year old who pulled a dresser down on himself because the parents were “napping” aka faded from drugs.
Oh, and he wasn’t crushed. It was positional asphyxiation. So he stayed there and suffocated for about 5 minutes. Alone and panicking.
The thing with adult autopsies is the visual weight of the open torso. A bright red open rib cage. A child is different. The head is much bigger proportionally. The greatest visual weight was actually his mop of blonde hair on his big round head. Very distressing. I think about him most days.
15. networkedquokka:
I was teaching swimming, had 8 or 10 kids, including the worst student I have ever had. Around 9 years old, certainly old enough to know better, he would not follow directions. He wouldn’t stay with the group, he would ignore instructions, he would slide down the wall to the deep end by himself, he was an absolute danger to himself and was taking my attention away from the other students.
I’ve had maybe a thousand, fifteen hundred students and he was the only one I ever had to discipline – I kicked him out of the pool and made him sit on the edge. He actually complied – the first time he had ever seriously listened to instructions – which tells me that he wasn’t used to being called out on his behavior.
After class I was summoned to speak with my manager who had angry mommy steaming up the pool deck right besides me. She told me that nobody was allowed to discipline her son except for his father. The manager nodded in agreement but it was clear that he was on my side.
Whatever.
It was the 2nd to last session in the schedule and they didn’t show up for the last one. Good thing, too, because I had decided that if he screwed up even a little bit I would taken the entire class out of the pool and marched everybody over to deliver her kid back to her (in full view of all of the other parents). I couldn’t leave the kids in the pool unsupervised, and she wasn’t allowed on the deck, so it would have been the only way to do things her way instead of my way which got the point across and resulted only in a loss of 5 minutes of water time.