Evil Children & the Games they Play

Monday Emily came home from school and asked me "Mom what's a boiler room?" Strange question for a 4th grader. Although I know in theory what a boiler room is I couldn't explain it. Not to worry, she'll look it up on the internet. And I forgot all about it.

That evening we put Em to bed as usual but she woke up with a tummy ache so she crawled in bed with us & later she & I went to her bed. Apparently, maximum capacity for our bed is 3 people & 2 dogs. I thought she was awfully cuddly but just enjoyed it & forgot all about it.

Tuesday I picked her up from school & she plops in the car and says "Mom, guess what I did at recess today?" What I ask, expecting the same ol' response. But instead she said "I looked for Freddy". OH really, who is Freddy & did you find him? Her response.....

"No, he's dead"

OK, you've got my attention. So I asked her to explain.

Seems she has been playing with a new set of friends at recess. (Oh yeah, I remember she had told me their names last week but I forgot all about it)

Seems they have come up with this tale of Freddy who was murdered, awoke from his grave and began killing little children.

Seems my daughter, bless her little soul. Believes that Freddy is real & is stalking the children on the Key Elementary play ground and apparently knows where we live.

I tried to explain that it is just a story that the kids were making up to scare other kids.

Why would they do that? Because some kids think that it is fun to be scared.

"Well it's not. And besides I know it's true. London went to the boiler room with Mr. Travis" (the janitor). And how that proves that there is a child named Freddy killing kids is beyond me. But in her 10 year old mind it made perfect sense.

Then she pulled out her finale, most important, piece of fact that PROVED Freddy was real.



A folded piece of paper where she had pain stackingly copied word for word the note that her friend had shown her. (double click to see it clearly)

My favorite is Freddy's weaknesses -

Silver - will freeze him

Fire - will bring him to a fire place.

Then to add a convincing twist (and obviously a sign of the times) they listed a website: www:freddy'slife.com

I pounced on that one. Let's look up the website. And of course there was no such website.

But that sparked a whole new batch of, "But I know it's true because they also said there is a Bloody Mary. Oh yeah, I remember now. She mentioned a week or so ago that she knew what a bloody mary was. (How long has this been going on?)

Then I got the brillant idea to look up Freddy on Snopes.com. After all they couldn't be the first school age kids to come up with him.

There wasn't anything about Freddy but Bloody Mary was indeed on Snopes. My plan almost back fired though. Cause the minute she saw something come up about Bloody Mary her eyes got wide and she said "See I told you it was real".

I spent some time explaining what a legend was & how people just keep telling the story over & over as if it were true.

I'm not sure she totally believes me. I explained to her that we don't believe that people wake up from the grave because we know that Jesus did and once we die we go to live with him & who would want to come back from that.

Then we spent her bed time reading scripture & talking about how this is a perfect example of why the bible says we should think about things that are good & pure & not about things that are evil. And about how God will deliever us from the grasp of evil & cruel men.

I'd like to say that it worked wonders and maybe it did. But sleeping with Momma & Daddy, at least for as long as Dad could stand it, worked the best.

Now where are those evil children.......................

Sweet Birthday Wishes

Two of the sweetest things happened this weekend because it was Emily's birthday.

The first, my friend Mary from My Friend and the things she has taught me insited that I buy Emily a musical Hallmark card for her birthday. Now don't fall over dead when I say this, but I generally consider cards to be a waste of money if they cost over 98 cents. But it was her money not mine. And she just knew that Emily would LOVE it. Then she asked me to put $5.00 in the card. Now that, in and of it's self isn't extravagent. But when you consider that this lady, after all bills are paid receives $50.00 for the ENTIRE month it seems a little extravagant. Again her money not mine. So I did it. She was right Emily loved it.

We have these kids that we have been bringing to church for several years now. Their home life has been rough, Mom in jail etc etc etc. Then DHS took them from Grandma & placed them with an Aunt. She is now raising her 3 neices & 1 nephew along with her 3 kids. We've known them pre Aunt & now with Aunt. They have done amazingly well, not perfect but soooo much better. But this past weekend they reached out past themselves, which is HUGH for kids that are constantly fighting for their place in life. They set up a lemonade stand & used the proceeds to buy Emily a birthday card & candy. Then when Emily received more gifts from friends at church the youngest one cried because she didn't get anything for her birthday.

So often we help & help & help and when we don't see the results that WE think we should see, we think that their are no results.