Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Thanks for the info...

Yesterday, one of my students decided that during silent independent reading time that it was the perfect time to tell me that he was "becoming a man". He walked up to me and said "Guess what? I just got my first bit of peach fuzz!" as he points to his crotch...Usually, I'm pretty good on my feet, but I had no response but "Thanks for that information." after what seemed like a long hesitation on my part. All I have to say is wow.

He doesn't have a father in his life, he just recently moved in with a stepfather, so I guess I'm glad he feels comfortable or close enough to me to want to share something like that, but...

1 comment:

comoprozac said...

It must have been a topic of conversation at home. He probably thought it was a guy thing to discuss. Your response was good in that it recognized the student's pride while not calling a ton of attention to it.