My sister tells a funny story about a little boy she became attached to one summer during a college internship at the Boys and Girls Club. He was a spunky kid named Bryan that took a liking to her as well, and talked nonstop about whatever was on his mind.
One day they played a game. I don’t know what it was called or even what the rules were, but apparently there was some type of bean bag called “the bird” and the object was to pass it to one another.
At one point in the game, my sister had the bean bag and Bryan was freaking out, yelling “FLIP ME THE BIRD, FLIP ME THE BIRD…” over and over again.
She says it’s one of the funniest things she’s ever heard and by the way she tells it, it’s one of the funniest I’ve heard too!
I hadn’t thought about that story in a very long time, until I was teaching my 3 year old Kids’ Choir class a few weeks ago. The other teacher was introducing a new song to the kids. Given their ages, hand motions to go along with the words are always helpful.
One of the frequent words in this particular song was the name “Jesus” and so we showed them how to sign His name. Ms. Christy did the sign once and then pointed to each of their middle fingers and told them to touch those fingers to the palm of their opposite hand, representing the wounds from the nails on the cross.
You know, 3 and 4 year olds are very proud of themselves when they can do something big people can do, and in their excitement figuring out they were to use their middle finger and not their pointer finger, they were all holding up their middle fingers, grinning ear to ear showing each other.
I was thinking to myself “Flip me the bird, flip me the bird!”
I’m pretty sure one sweet girl in particular went home and showed her parents which finger to use, because the next week we were talking to them about the words in a song that went “Oh be careful little hands what you do” and when we asked the class if anyone could tell us something bad we could do with our hands, she quickly flipped us the bird and said we should NEVER do that!
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Been about 15 years and it STILL cracks me up!
Worth the wait!! THAT was tooooo funny :) It is always a joy when working with those ages!
LOL! So cute! Guess that explains Addilyn’s recent interest in her middle finger. She keeps holding out her hand and asking me which finger is the middle one or which finger is the longest one. Now I know why :)