Do Mice Swim?
Bones is enrolled in a pre-school music program called "Pied Pipers". It's great, he loves it and seems to be learning a lot. The other night I asked him if he knew the story of the "Pied Piper". "Yes," he said, "Katie (teacher) read it the first day of Pied Piper class."
As he started to tell the story, I winced. Recalling a rather creepy, violent story of a man that rids the town of mice or rats, then decides to rid the town of its children when the townspeople refuse to pay for the earlier rodent removal, I was a a little leery of what he had been told in class.
He recounted the story of how a man played a pipe that caused all the mice to follow him out of town. When the reached the end of town, he "lead" them into the water. End of story.
[Pregnant pause]
"Dad," he asked, "Can mice swim?"
As he started to tell the story, I winced. Recalling a rather creepy, violent story of a man that rids the town of mice or rats, then decides to rid the town of its children when the townspeople refuse to pay for the earlier rodent removal, I was a a little leery of what he had been told in class.
He recounted the story of how a man played a pipe that caused all the mice to follow him out of town. When the reached the end of town, he "lead" them into the water. End of story.
[Pregnant pause]
"Dad," he asked, "Can mice swim?"
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