Kids are great!!!

So, I haven't gotten a flower from a boy today, but hey, it's only 11. But I was talking with some parents again and one of them had her little 2 year old girl. She's so sweet and so smart, like all her daughters have been. One of the mothers asked me if the Appleby's were going to come to swimming lessons on Wednesday. Before I got to say anything the little girl puts her hands in the air and goes "I dunno, maybe." Which is actually exactly what I was going to say. It was really funny and super cute.
Then there's this other little boy who the youngest in his family and he was playing with a kid who's a few years younger than him. He told the kid not to do something and the kid did it and he looked at him and was like, "Hey! I'm older than you. You're suppose to respect your elders!" It was hilarious. He must hear that at home all the time.
 But seriously, nowadays what kid actually respects their elders because I don't ever see it. I've got a younger sister who seems to think that she's my mother and controls me. And you should see the people who come into Subway, some of the kids are so rude.  It's weird, I remember in grade 7 and 8 at Appleby we always had to stand when a teacher walked in the room. It was just a respect thing. Then it stopped in grade 9. I'm not sure if we got "too cool" or if the teacher's found it annoying but it stopped and I've never seen it happen since.  One of the things that I used to love about Appleby was the seniority, when I first started it was hard core. The grade 12s (the oldest grade) were in charge. They could do whatever they wanted, they earned it through 12 years of being younger.  As I went through my years there that changed. I think it just might be this generation but it appeared that no one at Appleby cared about seniority anymore, except the seniors who were getting shafted because they had to put up with all the seniority before them.  I kinda wish that seniority didn't change because at Appleby anyway it gave people that last year to look forward to, that year that they could finally be in charge of the school. But now the new grade 9s come in and it's like they own it. So annoying.