David John is a creative kid. He's also a boy. Sometimes that combination leads to him creating things that others might find less.... appropriate. So, it was with a mixture of hilarity and horror that I read the little booklet David John brought home in honor of President's Day. (Yes, I know that's in February.) It was about Abraham Lincoln but was more akin to "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter". For each picture he crossed out the biographical facts and wrote his own narrative. I give you: Abraham Lincoln Goes Crazy
We laughed, we cried, we wondered what on earth his teacher must think. Thankfully, she just thinks he's hilarious. She rolls with his wild creativity and antics. She puts up with him writing assignments in Pig Latin or in stylized letters. She's fine with him turning innocent pictures in their little booklets into monsters. She lets him be him and we are so grateful for that. Who knows, maybe he'll even grow up to be president. It could happen.
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