Today, I visited my girlfriend in the preschool she's interning at. She asked me to continue reading The Little Mermaid to her class, handing me the book. After the story, the whole class started to cry. She never told me to sugarcoat the ending and lie, Disney-style. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, while waitressing, I served a family with a little girl who was wearing a Frozen shirt. I told her I'm friends with Elsa and that she taught me to sing. The girl asked me to sing a song, so I did. Not even 5 seconds in, she started bawling. FML
Today, while babysitting a young girl, I put on the movie Bambi, as she told me it was her favorite movie. I didn't know that her parents always skipped the scene where Bambi's mom dies. Despite my attempts to comfort her, she was still upset when her parents returned. Her mom blamed me. FML
Today, I was babysitting a kid for the first time. She asked if she could watch a movie, so I downloaded Cinderella for her. An hour later, this 10-year-old girl was lecturing me about unrealistic standards of beauty and abusive relationships, and how I suck for liking the movie. FML
Today, I babysat for two little girls, who wanted to play 'mermaids'. I smiled, and said that I would love to play with them. The older girl laughed, saying "You can't be a mermaid. Mermaids are pretty." FML
Today, my little sister and I were reading a book together and out of nowhere, she said "I love you." My heart melted and I told her that I loved her too. Then she told me that she was talking to her stuffed animal, not me. FML
Today, I was reading a picture storybook to a kindergarten kid. She could pronounce more words than me, and corrected me. I'm about triple her age. FML
Today, I have been teaching my 5 year-old step-daughter how to read and write. She came bounding up to me with a piece of paper and said, "look what I did". It was a letter that said "My dad misses my real mommy, not you". FML
Today, a parent of one of the students I teach called me to complain that I was teaching her child "lies" and "fairytales". I was teaching them about the Holocaust. FML
Today, my boyfriend dropped by my work to break up with me. I had to go the rest of my shift with a smile, fighting back tears. I work as the Cinderella at Disney Land. FML
Today, at the Mommy and Me dance class that I take my four year old daughter to, the instructor had us do a stretch, telling us to pretend we're mermaids. My daughter said to me, "But you're not a mermaid, you're a whale!" FML
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Dave_Davington 34
Not going to lie, when I read "Today, I visited my girlfriend in the preschool", I thought this story was going somewhere completely different.
mssileas 25
It happens - she has now learned that you consume each and every media you present to children thoroughly in advance to avoid this. This is a good lesson if she will be working with children in the future. (And if she was aware of how the original version differed from the Disney Happy End, it's kind of on her for not instructing you or provide you with an alternative ending.) On the other hand, a lot of times children just pick up from your own displayed emotions. When I took my son to the screening of The Lion King, there was a mother with her daughter next to us. Now, Mufasa dying is a sad scene. But it takes like two minutes and is followed by the hyenas crashing into the thornbushes. So if you just say nothing and let the kids handle their own feeling for a couple seconds before the next comic relief scene distracts them again, everything is fine. But if you do it like this mum and lean over to hug your kid, sniffling "Oh it's fine the big lion is just sleeping I'm sure he's not dead" that kid cries, because mum is upset. So you might not even need to sugarcoat the ending of the little mermaid, just stay calm and matter-of-factly, the ending is very philosophical anyways and goes over most kids' heads. But if you or your gf act upset about it, the infectious crying starts. :/ Anyways it was probably a teaching moment for her as an intern working with kids in any direction, take it as such.
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Comments (31)
JenniF_fml 9
Why is a preschool allowing an intern to let her boyfriend in to read a book to children???
charliewhippet 9
She's an intern and she's already palming off her duties onto a randomer? (Sprry OP but to the school that's what you are!) She's not gona last long...
Nhayaa 21
I'm wondering if the people who hit the chocked reaction dit it because of the FML or because they didn't know there was a different "dead ending" they never heard of...
anniemeece 23
This entire FML is confusing to me, from start to finish. a) You visited your girlfriend while she was working with children? And they let you just come into the classroom? With children? While your girlfriend was working? b) She gave you a job to do? During her internship? And they let a random person read to the kids? c) She gave you the original Little Mermaid to read? Why was that even there, if that's not what they intended to share with the kids?
moonlight77 28
You just asked every question that was rambling around in my mind for the last 5 minutes.
Cody Vertigo Bonthoux 15
even still the thought had to have been swimming around in your mind😂
mehimhere 11
shoulda been obvious
AxelRose 6
I almost want to count this as an accomplishment. But I bet you're probably in hot water right now so that's unfortunate and really awkward.