A Slow News Day
Every day, this blog faces the hard decision of selecting the newsiest, most interesting, most important parenting news items to present to you, my loyal readers. Many items are considered, few are chosen.
Here's one that made the cut. It's a story about Diego, an 11-year-old Mexican boy who glued his hand to the bed so he wouldn't have to go to school.
Early Monday morning, Diego slathered industrial glue on his hand and attached it to the bed. Mom later found him watching TV with his hand stuck to the bed. She spent nearly two hours trying to free the hand with water, oil and nail polish remover before calling the cops, who managed to unstick him.
Mama said: "I don't know why he did it. He's a good boy."
Diego said: "I didn't want to go to school because vacation was so much fun."
At first glimpse, this story may seem beyond trivial. But there are several valuable lessons to be learned here.
- Your kid may be "a good boy" but that doesn't mean he's not kinda stupid.
- Make vacations less fun. In fact, make them so not fun that by the end, your kids will be desperate to get back to school and away from you.
- If despite your precautions, this happens to you, leave the kid where he is. Sooner or later, he'll realize the fatal flaw of his clever scheme. Like when he has to go to the bathroom.
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