fandomhigh | Child Development- 1st Period- Class #12

The class got into the Danger Shop today, and Lily quickly ushered them into a circle on the floor. "Hi, guys!" she greeted them. "Today we're going to talk about school age kids. Okay, technically you all are school age kids, but we're mostly talking about ages seven to thirteen. Think first grade through junior high. By now, your kids have pretty much hit all the developmental milestones you really notice and celebrate. As the kids get oler there's less and less you want to be 'yay' about, and more things people kind of want to shove under the rug and pretend isn't happening, like puberty, and how that one kid who was simply the first grade troublemaker is having his first run-in with juvie by seventh grade. We'll get more into that kind of thing later. Children this age are trying to be more adult. They socialize more, they're starting to feel peer pressure and doing stupid things just like grown ups. They curse like sailors and think they don't notice until their little six-year-old brother starts using the F-word in class and rats their big sibling out when you ask where he learned that word. Pretty much, they now have excuses to start behaving like brats, and you'd be terrified to know how many of them just stay that way.

"But there are good things about the early school years," said Lily. "Unfortunately I can't talk about them at length so while we're here in the Share Circle, you're all going to get to ~~probably make up~~ share one good memory about your years in school from first grade till eighth. And no matter what your trauma, everyone has to have one good thing they remember from back then, even if it was just that they had vending machines that sold Jolt or something. Work with me here. If you want to share annoyances you had in school, that's fine, too. You can talk about anything in the Share Circle, and I'll be over there playing my guitar for you all."

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In school!

Peyton Sawyer

Angela Montenegro

Claire Fisher

John Sheppard

Jen Scotts

Emmett Cullen

Francine Peters

Dean Winchester

Triela

Jess Mariano

Kaylee Frye

Bender

Jill McTeague

K-Mart

Yasutora Sado

Have your feet fallen asleep sitting in a circle on the floor yet?

Angela's feet had not quite gone to sleep yet.

That didn't mean they weren't well on the way, and she was hoping that a wriggle every now and then would help stave that off.

John had given up on sitting cross-legged and was stretching his legs out in front of him with hopes that the pins and needles thing would stop before he had to amputate.

Jess felt really stupid sitting in the circle, and it wasn't long before he stretched his legs out in front of him.

Ah, yes, puberty. That was when it all went wrong.

Also, Jill's feet were asleep.

Talk about a good (or bad) memory from your younger school days. ~~When you make one up, I know I am asking a lot.~~

"I dunno. Nothing. This one time in art class back in first grade I made this little doll out of paper," Claire said hesitantly. "Blue pajama man. I carried him around for, like, a week, and my mom made a huge deal out of it."

[Look, it's even canon!]

"Uh, I've mostly blocked out elementary school?" John started, mostly because that was when all the bad stuff started. "But I remember P.E. and getting to play dodgeball in the gym whenever it was too wet to go outside on the field. That was always fun."

"I was taking ballet lessons and I got to be in the talent show in 5th grade," Francine said wistfully. "Back when I was shorter, skinnier, and not likely to fall over if I stood on tip-toes."

"My dad taking me out and teaching me how to shoot," Dean said. "We used bottles on a fence as targets and I bullseyed every one of them and he gave me this smile like..." He shrugged. "I dunno. But it was cool."

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"I don't have any memories from that time of my life," Triela answered matter-of-factly.

"'School' and 'good memories' don't usually go in the same sentence for me," Jess said. "I had one teacher though who used to slip me older-level books during reading class, 'cause she knew I read better than the other kids. I thought she was trying to make things harder for me, but now I know that was pretty cool of her."

"Yeah, I didn't exactly go to school," Bender said. "But my first Mother's day? When Mom sounded her klaxon just for me, her favourite Bender; that day didn't suck."

"I... huh." K-Mart frowned as she thought. "I only have memories of grade school up until partway through fourth grade, 'cause after that I wasn't in school."

Y'know, zombies and all. Ugh, zombies. She did a mental shudder.

Who is strumming away on her guitar. ~~And still needs to renew stuff, obvs. It's like a challenge now.~~

How is it only Tuesday?

Child Development- 1st Period- Class #12

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