Lesson Learned

A while back we had an incident with several of the kids leaving objects all over the floor. In an attempt to help them appreciate the risks associated with doing this we gave them all a writing assignment.

The assignment was simple... Abby and Victoria would work together on one essay and Josh and Alaina would work on the other. The essay had to be two full notebook pages long and the topic was "Why You Should NEVER Leave Stuff On The Floor".

I decided to post them so that I could share them with you all as it was one of the more amusing forms of discipline we have encountered so far.

I've left the original grammar and spelling in for your enhanced experience... Enjoy!

ESSAY by Victoria and Abby

You shouldn't leave som-thing dangerous like a tac, pencil, or scissors on the floor. These are some reasons why. Frist, you can get poked and bleed. Second, you can slip. Lastly, you can hurt someone by falling on to them. Saporting the first reason,(you an bleed to death, you can be rushed to the hospital in a ambulance with family and friends worrieng about you.

Helping the second, reason(you can slip), you can slip. near a counter or something hard and crack your head open.

Saporting the last reason(you can. hurt someone by falling on to them.) you can fall on to them and they can get hurt with you when it was your fault in the furst place.There are many reasons why leaving sharpodjects on the floor is dangeroys and is not nice to other people that visit or family that live with you.

These are many reasons why you and I should never leave somthinvg sharp on the floor again.

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ESSAY By: Alaina Fister

You're walking in your house on a Monday morning all groggy and... OUCH! You stepped on a pencil that your child left on the ground! GRRRRRR... Now you have a piece of lead sticking out of your toe. All because of a careless mistake! (You have to go to the hospital).

There are many reasons why leaving sharp objects on the floor is a treacherous idea. First and most obviously, someone can get hurt & maybe have to go to the hospital (see 1st paragraph for example). If it gets stuck inside your skin it would be very painful to get out.

Second, you can lose that object. Let's say someone accidently kicks the sharp object under a couch. If they don't notice, it can be gone.

Third, you can break or ruin the object . You could step on a $20 DVD or CD & it would be gone forever. You may not get hurt but thats just like ripping a $20 dollar bill in half because that DVD is gone!

Overall leaving sharp objects on the floor is plainly a SICK idea. People can get hurt; you can break that object, (like a CD or DVD). You can also lose that object. Leaving objects on the ground is a horrible idea.