What About Mom?

In Maxwell's class they are teaching a special safety course. You know the one when they start out with the easy stuff like not to talk to strangers, and end with the hard stuff like what to do when someone touches you wrong. I have talked to Maxwell about this many times, so this should be a major repeater course, but it is always good to have reminders. He came home with a list the teacher had him fill out that was titled "Who can I tell". It had three blanks for him to write names of people he could tell if someone was touching him inappropriately. This was his list:

1. uncle

2. Steve

3. aunt

He wrote in his own #4. Mrs. Love (his teacher)

I was going over this list with him and he explained it to me further. He said when he put uncle he meant Uncle Ryan. Uncle Ryan is my sister Cali's husband, and he just became a police officer, which is the coolest thing ever to a 6 year old boy. He now associates police officers with protection rather than just someone who will give you a ticket if you don't buckle your seatbelt!!

I thought it was funny that he wrote Steve rather than Dad on the list.

When we got to "aunt" I asked him which aunt he was referring to. He said, "which of your sisters is tough and does kickboxing?". I said, "that's my sister Cari". He said, "yea, that's who I meant...Aunt Cari." He is really seeking protection here isn't he?

I'm sure his teacher was happy that he added a number 4 and wrote her name in, but really, where the heck is Mom on the list?