Live and Learn
My wife loves kids. She loves our three kids. She loves her 400 kids. That second group is the number of children she has taught in the last 15 years as a first grade teacher. This year she has a class of 26 students, but today only 25 showed up. The absent child would have preferred to be at school, but she didn’t get that choice. Over the weekend, she attended a birthday party, where there was cake and ice cream, and a slide. Unfortunately, before the dessert was served, she fell off the slide and bumped her head. Her parents took her to get checked out and they were told their child had a mild concussion. A few hours later, the headache became a lot more serious when the little girl started throwing up. As you would expect, her parents immediately took her to the emergency room where a cat scan showed severe swelling in her head. Had the parents waited, the result could have been tragic, but thankfully, the prognosis is for a full recovery. The doctors said t...