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During math this morning, there was a bit of "downtime". This means the students were folding and gluing geometric figures and were allowed to be having their own conversations. While I was standing at one table helping a group, I overhead a conversation between my aide and a student. I invited myself into the conversation and it went something like this:

Ms. A: "My son is home sick today. He was throwing up all night."
Karen: "Why aren't you home?"
Ms. A: "My husband is home with him."
Karen: "You trust your husband to be home with him?"
Ms. A: "Of course!"
Karen: "I wouldn't leave him home with my husband. I would send him to daycare or stay home by myself. Or I would leave him with my Momma."
Ms. A: "Why would you marry him if you didn't trust him?"
Lauren: "That's right...you shouldn't marry a man you don't trust! You should marry someone you love AND trust!"
Me: "Right! I hope you marry someone that you trust and you love. If that's not true, then you shouldn't get married."
Karen: "Well, my aunt got married to a guy I didn't trust. I told her I didn't trust him, but she married him anyway. And you know what? He left her with the kids."
Me: "That is just one instance. That does not mean that you shouldn't say all men are untrustworthy."
Karen: "I don't trust men!"

You're kidding me right?!?!!? She is nine years old and already swearing all men are untrustworthy. And second...was I really having this conversation with a few nine year olds??? Maybe it wasn't the most conventional teacher-student conversation, but if she feels this way about men, is she going to get these feelings out at home where there are men?