the kissy girls
friends with older children warned me about the learning curves children face when they start primary school. i was ready for the educational learning curve, it was one of the reasons we held sebastian back. and i had seen the educational learning curve when he started kindy and started spouting songs and terms i hadn’t heard before.
as for the social learning curve, i thought i was quite prepared for that…i knew there would be friends, (pretend or otherwise), and stuff, and expressions "easy peasy lemon squeezy" was a fave from last year and "yes sir, bra sir" somehow made it into his venacular not to mention the always popular "ooooh, that’s a toughie!" said in an annoying voice.
and he’s talked marriage since annie announced it was going to happen, so the girl thing has always been pretty cool.
so what’s with this new game and species…THE KISSY GIRLS?
it’s not easy to find out. eavesdropping in the car on the way home as he and adam discuss the strategies of the kissy girls has been my only way of learning about them. they don’t tell me much, except occasionally when i ask a question (example further below) that is so dense they have to answer it to relieve me of my stupidity.
WHAT I KNOW: each grade level (primary one and two that i know of) has girls in each class known as kissy girls. to be a kissy girl, the girl must be willing to rush around during playtime, chase the boys and, oh yes, (oooh, awful say the boys) kiss the boys.
(i’m not certain whether every boy wants to play with the kissy girls or whether every boy can. give me time.)
if during playtime, a kissy girl catches a poor, defenseless male, then she kisses him and that means he is her prisoner and has to go to the girls’ fort. and ONLY the leader of the boys team can rescue you. oh, what a terrible thing it is to be caught by those evil, awful kissy girls.
"so why did you play?" i interrupt, unable to keep silent.
"because, tess"
each day sebastian and adam discuss the day’s rescue strategies and if they have been caught by a kissy girl and if so…DID SHE KISS YOU? and sebastian tries to remember the names of the kissy girls in his class. (adam asks him, i don’t need to, i can tell you who they are just by looking at them).
yesterday both boys were caught by kissy girls. apparently they are in different groups since both have different captains. (sebastian appointed himself captain of his team which i think just has one other fellow in it).
"oh it’s just awful the kissy girls."
"yes, it was terrible, they caught me!"
"did you get kissed?"
"no, did you?"
"no, did you?"
"no."
"i hate the kissy girls. i would hate it if they kissed me."
"so would i."
and again, because i am physically unable to eavesdrop successfully, i say, "sebastian, adam, i have a question. you always say you are very fast runners."
"i am very fast, tess, i am faster than a superhero."
"i am too."
"but a kissy girl could catch you? they must be really fast."
"sometimes."
and then i change the topic to star wars or football or swimming and the kissy girls are done for another day.
KISSY GIRLS !!!
HOT OFF THE PRESS: sebastian was kissed today by a kissy girl who is a year ahead of him that is all i know. adam is ill, so i didn’t get to earwig on the details. sebastian mentioned the kissy girl event to me he was so disgusted/secretly thrilled, but that’s all i know. i don’t even think he knows her name. even if he did, i doubt he would tell me.
