The Things Kids Do...

Okay, so I have the funniest/most awful thing that one of the kids that attends a camp I work at did. In order for it to make sense, you need a little background. Brace yourselves, because it's awful, yet slightly humorous--in a childlike innocence way, because the girl who did this is only nine. 

Every Wednesday at camp we make prayer cards for people off the church's prayer list. Normally, they're only allowed to write on one side of the postcard because we have to write the address on the back. This week all the campers made them for the same guy--a guy that went to school with all of us and was in our friend group. He is/was(?) in the Army but was severely injured about a three months ago when he stepped on an IED, losing his left arm and right leg. The kids were allowed to write on both sides because we were going to mail them in a big envelope. 

So, we told all the kids this and said they needed to write things like "Thank you for your service", "Keep your head up" (my boss's idea), etc and not "Get Well Soon" because he isn't really sick, per se, or things like "I'm sorry" because we want to keep his morale up and be supportive and nice. 

So this one little girl named, draws a pretty picture of a flag and writes on the front of the post card "Thank you for keeping me and my family safe." And we're all thinking, how sweet! Because seriously, the rest of the kids didn't listen and just wrote things like "Thank You" and her's really felt heartfelt, you know? 

Then we flipped it over...

On the back she had drawn two stick figures. One had a head, body, two arms, and two legs. The other had a head and body, but was missing an arm and a leg. Above the pictures she wrote "Me" with an arrow pointing to the normal stick figure and a "You" with an arrow pointing to the...er...other stick figure. Underneath she wrote "I feel sorry for you!" 

*facepalm*

You can't send that to a guy who just lost an arm and a leg!!!! 

Needless to say, we asked her to redo it, and she didn't really understand why, lol. I think by "I feel sorry for you" she meant, "I feel bad for you" and meant to be sweet and sincere, but still we were all like "Whoa! Can't send that to him."

A very important lesson was learned: ALWAYS screen the prayer cards before sending them. 

We kept the card, heehee, because in all honesty, as awful as it is--it was still sort of funny. In that awful way. Showed it to the preacher and who was SO appalled, lol.