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10 Iconic Things you'll hear if you work with kids

"Miss Maddie... Was there color TV when you were a kid?"

Maddie Hinojosa

Jun 29, 2018

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10 Iconic Things you'll hear if you work with kids

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This summer I have been so fortunate to get a job as a summer camp counselor. I spend nine hours a day, with an average of thirty kids, all ranging from ages six to twelve. It seems like I can't go a day without having a million and one new stories, and the phrase "kids say the darndest things" has never rang more true. Here are ten word-for-word quotes from my crazy campers, which you are also likely to hear if you work with kids.

1. "This movie came out in 1998?? That was like 20,000 years ago!"

Yup. Mulan is definitely 20,000 years old, and I, who was also born in 1998, am 20,000 years old.

2. When asked how old they think I am: "Ummm... 2,000?"

Totally. Only like... 1,980 years off, but close enough right?

3. "Miss Maddie is my mom!" "Oh yeah, well Miss Maddie is my GRANDMA!"

While I do have the back of an eighty year old woman, I don't think I look like one.

4. Migos plays in background "Is this Cardi B?"

I don't even know how a group of six-year-olds could possibly know every word to "Walk It Like I Talk It."

5. "Did you get married Miss Maddie?" "No, she can't get married. She's too young!"

Thanks guys, it's so refreshing to know that somebody thinks I'm young.

6. "Miss Maddie... There are Cheerio's in the boy's bathroom."

I don't even know how this happened... but our bathroom was overrun by Cheerio's.

7. "Are we still friends Miss Maddie?" "Yes, I thought we were best friends?" "Oh yeah... I forgot."

That moment when your best friend forgets y'all are best friends.

8. When asked where his shoes went: "I'm not sure... I lost them."

You came in with shoes... where did they go?

9. Upon telling them I once wanted to marry Adam Levine: "Well, why didn't you?"

An excellent question... to which I wish I had the answer to. Wya Adam?

10. "WAIT. STOP THE VAN RIGHT NOW. LET'S GO TO COSTCO!!"

Now THIS is the type of energy I need in my life.

Once I realized my kids responded better to "Howdy" than "Hey boys and girls!", I knew I was working with a group of winners. These goofy children make every day an adventure, and I am so happy to call myself their teacher, despite how old they think I am.

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10 Iconic Things you'll hear if you work with kids

"Miss Maddie... Was there color TV when you were a kid?"

1. "This movie came out in 1998?? That was like 20,000 years ago!"

2. When asked how old they think I am: "Ummm... 2,000?"

3. "Miss Maddie is my mom!" "Oh yeah, well Miss Maddie is my GRANDMA!"

4. *Migos plays in background* "Is this Cardi B?"

5. "Did you get married Miss Maddie?" "No, she can't get married. She's too young!"

6. "Miss Maddie... There are Cheerio's in the boy's bathroom."

7. "Are we still friends Miss Maddie?" "Yes, I thought we were best friends?" "Oh yeah... I forgot."

8. When asked where his shoes went: "I'm not sure... I lost them."

9. Upon telling them I once wanted to marry Adam Levine: "Well, why didn't you?"

10. "WAIT. STOP THE VAN RIGHT NOW. LET'S GO TO COSTCO!!"

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Coors Light Summer Brew:

Leinenkugel Summer Shandy

Leinenkugel Sunset Wheat

Sam Adams Summer Ale

Hell or High Watermelon

Blue Moon Summer Honey

LandShark Lager

Corona

75 degrees and sunny, plus, no humidity. I mean do I really need to say more?

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You can exercise with a view

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In n Out all day, every day

We have outdoor concerts

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Because let's be honest, we all use lyrics.

1. “Don’t get too close, it’s dark inside. It's where my demons hide.”

2. “Tonight, we are young.”

3. “Cuz I may be bad, but I’m perfectly good at it.”

4. “Tell me how they got that pretty little face on that pretty little frame.”

5. “I can’t wait to fall in love with you, you can’t wait to fall in love with me.”

6. “Sweatpants, hair tied, chillin with no makeup on.”

7. “Why you so obsessed with me?”

8. “We ain’t ever getting older.”

9. “I didn’t know that I was starving until I tasted you.”

10. “Didn’t they tell you I’m a savage?"

11. “I’m gonna make you miss me.”

12. "Cheers to the freakin weekend.”

13. “Love’s a game. Wanna play?”

14. “You don’t know about me, but I bet you want to.”

15. “Let’s set each other’s lonely nights, Be each other’s paradise.”

16. “Trippin’ on skies, sippin’ waterfalls."

17. “Wish we could turn back time, to the good old days.”

18. “But you will remember me for centuries.”

19. “Something about you makes me feel like a dangerous woman."

20. “Don’t act like it’s a bad thing to fall in love with me.”

21. “Darling, I’m a nightmare dressed like a daydream.”

22. “Find me where the wild things are.”

23. “I’m high on lovin’ you.”

24. “If you’re gonna be somebody’s heartbreak, somebody’s mistake, if you’re gonna be somebody’s first time, somebody’s last time, be mine.”

25. “Don’t be afraid to take the road less traveled on.”

Everything Bruce says in his classic rock songs.

1. "Talk about a dream Try to make it real You wake up in the night With a fear so real Spend your life waiting For a moment that just don't come Well don't waste your time waiting." (Badlands)

2. "It's a town full of losers/ I'm pulling out of here to win" (Thunder Road)

3. "You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above" (Tunnel of Love)

4. "I got something in my heart/ I been waitin' to give/ I got a life I wanna start/ One I been waitin' to live" (Leah)

5. “God have mercy on the man/ Who doubts what he’s sure of” (Brilliant Disguise)

7. “Is a dream a lie when it don’t come true, or is it something worse?” (The River)

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1. "Talk about a dream
Try to make it real
You wake up in the night
With a fear so real
Spend your life waiting
For a moment that just don't come
Well don't waste your time waiting." (Badlands)