Manners...

Mommy's are having quite a summer. Maybe its some sort of low pressure weather pattern that has been slowly moving through....I don't know, but it's affecting the kids. On Saturday I night I ate at my sister in laws house. Her daughter is...6 years old (my favorite age). My SIL told me that he daughter had made up the cutest song and asked her to sing it for me. She wouldn't but she did whisper some of the lines in my ear....something about can you teach an alligator manners. It sounded familiar and I was like - that kind of sounds like that book If you give a moose a muffin....anyway we all just went on our way, didn't think anymore about it. This morning my SIL sends me a text:

SIL: S. is writing sentences b/c that alligator song was not hers...its from a cartoon...lyin and plagiarism..lol

ME: LOLOL wow....how did you figure that out

SIL: We were singing it this morning and I heard her tell C....member that show...i made it different...so at breakfast I said hey C can you sing that song? And he sang it exactly and i said how did he know he said from the show then S said I changed it....it was exactly the same so I had to talk to her about what she was doing was lying and how it caused her one sin to multiply cuz she lied every time we sang it and when I told ya'll. After the sentences I talked to her about plagiarism and how its a from of stealing something and lying in saying its yours and how we can get in trouble in school with poems, songs, and writing....crazy...lol.

ME Wow. Can I laugh cause I really want to.

ME Thats awesome! Poor C....alll innocent singing the song. Can you imagine what was going through S's head????

Well, the texting kept going on...but I will leave you with that. My SIL actually ended up doing a great job teaching S about not doing that and even C learned about plagiarism. I wish I could have been a fly on the wall just to see S's face as her brother sang "her song" word for word. Could you tell that my SIL is a teacher? hehe!