If you are wondering what is common among to two parts of the title let me explain.
Yesterday was a bad traffic day getting back home and thus a dear friend V took the kids to swim lessons as I was battling my way on the highway to get home 5 minutes prior to the start of their classes. Thanks to all this chaos, I didn’t get to see the kids and hear about all their exciting news at school before they headed off to swim lessons.
After my workout, I made my way to pick Raul up from swimming only to be greeted by a super happy 8 year old screaming at the top of his lungs “Amma, I am famous!” After futile attempts at calming him down to extract further information and receiving “I have been there” smiles from parents nearby, I finally was able to get him to explain.
Apparently Obert Skye, the author of the Leven Thumps series is doing the tour of various school to promote his 5th book and is coming to the kids school on monday. Raul, has been unanimously selected by both his school librarian and class teacher to announce the arrival of this author and request the kids to meet with him during the public announcement time at school on Monday morning. He has his script all drafted and turned in to his teacher. The icing on the cake of course is that his 6th grade sister, who runs Media club at school will be announcing him before he does his advertising 
And thus we witness the birth of a celebrity! Mom & dad for sure agree
Part – II
Meg has been going through DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) at school the past couple of weeks. After the very first day of drug education, she came home to tell me all about it. The instructor had apparently asked the kids if they could name a few of the drugs they had heard of. Meg said that she was extremely surprised when a bunch of her classmates raised their hands and started shouting out a few of the most common ones out there.
Surpised why? Because she said that the only drugs she knew of were the ones she had taken in her life. As my brain tried to comprehend her statement, she quickly explained that the only drugs she knew of till then were Motrin, Tylenol and Amoxicillin that we had given her when she was sick. I couldn’t help but chuckle. My naive baby learnt a lesson or two that day
After a couple of weeks of these DARE sessions, she is the resident expert of all drugs that can be accessed the right or wrong way down to the latest one, Ritalin that is becoming all too popular in college campuses. This leaves mom and dad wondering if all this education is helping to keep them off it or giving them all the information to give it a try. We still are not sure but can only hope & pray that it helps keep them off it for life.
On that note, Happy Friday & have a great weekend folks!
Posted by How much is too much information? « Sand’s Random Ramblings on May 7, 2009 at 5:58 pm
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