I won't lie to you. My first reaction, when I saw that the U.S. Supreme Court history and the doorstopper of Constitutional interpretation had been pulled down from the shelves, was a little surge of maternal pride.
I was pretty sure the teenagers were using them as drink coasters. Or possibly dinner plates. And while I don't approve 100 percent of using books for this purpose, it's the kind of thing that would represent real progress in our house.
"Finally," I thought. "They're making an effort."
But, as it turns out, the eighth-grader has been using them to prepare for her role in the upcoming middle school production of Charley's Aunt, in which she plays a proper young English lady at Oxford in 1890.
In the late 19th century, apparently, young women wore legal tomes as hats. While watching television on the couch.
from the middle school drama archives: A Midsummer night's drama queen; A middle school drama in three acts
All you got to do is say Victorian and I’m “on-it!”
But honestly, don’t insult my onliest one intelligent with this “look at what my kid is doing” - on her own business.
Face it, you’re a backstage mom and you’re pushing your kid to the extreme to do anything to get a part, to include bending the Constitution - not to mention the flat spot on your child’s head - that will never go away.
I have to ask SK, “Stop!!!! In the name of love… before you bend her brow…think it o-o-verrrr!”
That’s just wrong.
Posted by: Audubon Ron | October 03, 2011 at 08:14 AM
This is a strange behavior I have never observed before. It could be because I'm not an actress or a Victorian woman though.
Posted by: jacqui | October 03, 2011 at 01:50 PM
The Victorians were apparently very big on precedent.
SK
Posted by: Suburban Kamikaze | October 03, 2011 at 05:47 PM
I think it's easy to learn this way...
Posted by: Adam | October 11, 2011 at 12:10 PM