Monkey's school sends home accident reports every time a child is injured at school. More often than not, the information written on the report is a repeat of what was already communicated in a phone call to a parent.
But sometimes you can glean a tad bit more information from the report.
For example, a while back I got the call that Monkey had a boo boo - a rather nasty paper cut on the palm of one hand. She got an "icy" and some hugs, and was none the worse for wear when I picked her up. She even had me admire the bandaid she was gleefully wearing, and refused to take it off until the next morning.
The accident report was stuffed into her lunchbox and I only casually glanced at it, since I (thought I) already knew what happened.
A few days later as I was cleaning and sorting the assorted detritus that had accumulated on the kitchen table, I picked the report up and, before consigning it to its fate in the recycling, read it carefully.
It was refreshingly polite.
It said Monkey "was holding on to the end of a book, that another child was reading, and a tug-of-war of sorts began."
Oh.
What it SHOULD have said was: "Your child is insane about books and gave herself a nasty papercut in the process of attempting to steal her friend's book".
Now that, that I'd believe.
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