tidbits from working with kids

so, i've been working with the kids in the After-School-Program for several months now. For whatever reason we have a lot of first graders. there are so many of them and they're so confused and they don't know how to read or subtract so i end up working with them a lot. i'm pretty sure it was on my first day that one of the little girls approached me and told me that she had lost her tooth - and i was so happy to celebrate this right of passage with her - we did the whole shabang - we talked about tooth fairies and biology and the pains of growing up. ((i mean i've worked with kids for the past 4 summers and i don't remember any kids talking about loose teeth or fairies or anything - maybe they don't fall out much in the summer.)) but as of late, it's been a bit overkill, kids are coming to the center everyday with new plastic lockets around their necks encasing the bloody baby teeth with style and pride - i've never been bombarded by so many loose teeth - i mean these kids are literally falling apart.

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i've noticed that most of the kids look like their moms and then i was thinking, well, maybe they resemble there fathers too - i just wouldn't know because i've never met any of their dads.
Where are all the fathers?

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