So, one of the awesome things about being a teacher is that kids LOVE to make shit for me. Let me just give this little girl props right now for her mad oragami skillz (shown below).
Convo with a little boy student following said gifter, "Miss Nancy, What is that paper thingy?" Me "Well, Joey, that's a cootie catcher." "What are cooties and why do we need to catch them?" he asks. So, I then try to explain that cooties are imaginary germs that boys get from girls and vice versa, being very careful to stress that they are PRETEND silly germs. "But, it I don't get it. If they're pretend, why do we talk about it? Are they little white things like this?" as he pinches his little arm. I then get onto the trusty interwebs to try to wiki this shit.
Wiki gave me this "Cooties is, in childlore, a kind of infectious disease. The term may have originated with references to lice, fleas, and other parasites. A child is said to "catch" cooties through any form of bodily contact, proximity, or touching of an "infected" person or from a person of the opposite sex of the same age. Often the "infected" person is someone who is perceived as "different" and bears some kind of social stigma: of the opposite sex, disabled, someone who is shy or withdrawn, someone who has peculiar mannerisms, etc"
Fuck. Childhood infectious disease. Thank you, Wiki. You're a big helper.
Cootie catcher for kids.
Convo with a little boy student following said gifter, "Miss Nancy, What is that paper thingy?" Me "Well, Joey, that's a cootie catcher." "What are cooties and why do we need to catch them?" he asks. So, I then try to explain that cooties are imaginary germs that boys get from girls and vice versa, being very careful to stress that they are PRETEND silly germs. "But, it I don't get it. If they're pretend, why do we talk about it? Are they little white things like this?" as he pinches his little arm. I then get onto the trusty interwebs to try to wiki this shit.
Wiki gave me this "Cooties is, in childlore, a kind of infectious disease. The term may have originated with references to lice, fleas, and other parasites. A child is said to "catch" cooties through any form of bodily contact, proximity, or touching of an "infected" person or from a person of the opposite sex of the same age. Often the "infected" person is someone who is perceived as "different" and bears some kind of social stigma: of the opposite sex, disabled, someone who is shy or withdrawn, someone who has peculiar mannerisms, etc"
Fuck. Childhood infectious disease. Thank you, Wiki. You're a big helper.
Cootie catcher for kids.
Cootie catcher for adults.
Hey Nancy!
ReplyDeleteI got that shot from the doctor you told me about and I picked up a great big box of them Cootie Catchers. Are we still on for Saturday night?
Randy