Where am I?

I am convinced that sometimes the kids just forget which environment they are in and as a result slip up.  Liam in particular is bad with this.  He'll regularly come up with a comment at the dinner table that is well suited for his 4th grade classmates on the playground (as they try to impress each other with how rude they can be).  So I just remind him where he is and who he's speaking to and we get back on track.

I don't know if I'm pleased or sad, but it appears this phenomena bleeds over into school as well.  Liam had an assignment to write a letter to Santa.  The front is beautiful.  Standard cute kid writing to the big guy.  But when he turned the page over he clearly lost his focus and forgot where he was.

He starts by asking for 3 presents.  And that's not bad - I think every kid puts that in.  But I'd hazard a guess that most kids don’t put in the next part.  And I quote:

"If you don't, I'll show the president my picture of you drunk, standing on Rudolph, with a bottle of beer on your head!  This is serious!"

To her credit, the teach very nicely circled that part in red and wrote "Threats are no part of a friendly letter."

No shit!  No punishment for this one, but a lot of disappointed head shaking.