Getting Out of Tight Situations- Period 5- Class #7

[solo_sword]

This week, the students and any kids they brought with them would find themselves on a playground, complete with a slide, swingset, jungle gym, and all that fun stuff. This might have had something to do with the fact that beside Jaina was Chak, who for the record was kind of dying to get to playing. "Hi, everyone," she greeted them. "Happy to see some younger faces that I'm not used to. I-"

"Hey, can I do this part?" Chak asked.

While Jaina wasn't sure what he was going to say, she was sure it wasn't going to be anything bad. "The floor's yours."

Smiling a little at suddenly feeling in charge, he began, "Hi, my name's Chak, and this is my mom. This class is all about getting out of bad situations, like when someone won't share, or you get caught trying to sneak out... Not that I ever did that." Liar. "Or when you have a class planned but Fandom has bad timing. And sometimes getting out of bad situations means saying bad words and ditching the old idea and letting us play."

"You had to tell them that part, huh?" Jaina asked, looking down at him.

"Well, you did!"

"Just don't repeat it," she said. "The kid's right, though. Take the hour to go play, and if you don't have kids here to worry about... Push someone on the swings or something."

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[solo_sword]

Like it's day three of kid-having!

Re: Sign In

[endsthegame]

Andrew Wiggin

During the lecture

[solo_sword]

Talk, or wrangle your children, whatever.

Re: During the lecture

[endsthegame]

Force-sensitive child on one side, metal-eyed child on the other, and a very, very composed Ender in the middle. At least Olhado and Valentine were behaving?

Re: During the lecture

[wrongkindofsith]

After the way Cleo'd attached herself to Clark yesterday, Cara had been surprised (and not a little uncomfortable) to find she had a small plaid-wearing shadow following her to class this afternoon.

Though at least she was a relatively quiet child, even if she kept fidgeting.

Re: During the lecture

[stylin-wizard.livejournal.com]

Thankfully, Alex only had one child to deal with today. Surprisingly enough, Melanie was being good and behaving herself. That... probably wouldn't last very long.

Re: During the lecture

[longislandiceme]

Bobby had Desmond, Henry, and Bobina with him, all three who were wriggling a little in their seats, anxious to get this talking stuff over with so they could go play on the playground equipment.

Re: During the lecture

[momslilassassin]

Ben was there with a hyperactive blond boy (who was holding a bit of machinery out and making Stealth-X noises) and a redheaded girl who was peering around anxiously to see if any of her other siblings were with her in class today.

Ben looked a little exhausted.

Re: During the lecture

[svetocha-blooms.livejournal.com]

Dru was thankfully child-free. She sat with her coffee and took not of who had kids with them

Play!

[solo_sword]

All playground equipment is moddable. Go for it omg.

Re: Play!

[gonnabeemperor.livejournal.com]

Chak had already scoped out the playground and as soon as he was able, he parked himself on a swing. His goal today was to see if he could swing high enough to flip himself around.

Without using the Force, anyway.

Re: Play!

[endsthegame]

Ender had come to a sudden stop at the sight of the playground. Swings, slides-- for a moment he was sure he was staring back at the playground from the mind game, full of little kids that hid mouths full of little sharp teeth.

He jammed the palm of his hand hard against his temple, reminding himself it wasn't. This weekend wasn't doing good things for his PTSD.

Re: Play!

[snarknplaid.livejournal.com]

Once she had permission to play, Cleo quickly clambered up to the very top of the jungle gym and balanced herself on top of bars to keep an eye out for evil doers.

Re: Play!

[one-with-eyes.livejournal.com]

Olhado had found a ball, and that was at least something. He ran between the equipment, kicking it around, and yelling for Valentine to join him.

Valentine mostly just looked amused.

Re: Play!

[magicchaos.livejournal.com]

As soon as she was able, Melanie made a beeline for the parallel bars. She decided to see how long she could last on them, hanging upside down.

Re: Play!

[need-no-moon.livejournal.com]

Jake was totally laughing at all the kid having people, yes. From his comfortable spot away from the action. Too bad he had that whole hearing thing.

Re: Play!

[liliceflakes.livejournal.com]

Henry immediately bolted towards the slides, though he remembered what his Aunt Kennedy had said about falling down them. That being said, he hurried up the slide so he could go down it.

And again.

And again.

Eventually he might get sick of it, but for now, sliding was basically the best ever.

Re: Play!

[liliceflakes.livejournal.com]

Bobina made a break for the teeter-totters as soon as she was able. She'd play on them "properly" if anyone else joined her, but for now she was running up and down the length of the plank by herself, trying to see how loud a noise she could make when it banged against the ground.

Re: Play!

[liliceflakes.livejournal.com]

Oh oh oh oh there was a merry-go-round thing! Des made a break for that the second he was able, and wrapped both wee hands around one of the bar-thingies as he dug his feet into the sand and started to push.

It was hard work, but he just knew he'd get the thing moving fast enough eventually and he could hop on and spin around a couple of times before he had to get out and push again. Someday he'd be able to push it super-hard and go reallyreallyfastwhee with just one hand the way Mom could, right? Right. For now he'd just have to work hard at it, though, like Mom said she used to have to, and then someday!

...that didn't stop Des from hoping he'd be able to get the merry-go-round to spin fast enough that he could hang on and sort of fly.

Talk to Jaina. And Chak!

[solo_sword]

Not thinking about any goodbyes that traditionally have to be coming up, nope!

Re: Talk to Jaina. And Chak!

[one-with-eyes.livejournal.com]

There was an eight-year-old girl watching Jaina thoughtfully for a while. Eventually, she detached from Olhado's and Ender's sides and made her way over.

"Hi, Jaina."

Re: Talk to Jaina. And Chak!

[skycrawlers.livejournal.com]

"Jaina. JainaJainaJainaJainaJaina."

There was a little tug on her hand, too, just in case she hadn't heard her name the first half-dozen times. "King won't share the seesaw."

Re: Talk to Jaina. And Chak!

[gonnabeemperor.livejournal.com]

"Mom, can I have a bandage?" Chak asked, holding up a finger as he walked over.

The TA!

[solo_sword]

And possibly children! I have not asked!

OOC

[solo_sword]

I wanna keep my boy forever but I think keeping the canon stuff straight would break my brain really soon.