Blogging About How A Kindergarten Teacher Deals With Wet Pants

As long as I can remember teaching kindergarten in the public schools, kindergarten usually had the pleasure of eating lunch first. It felt more like brunch considering we usually had to eat at 10:30 AM and the breakfast crowd had cleared out less than two hours earlier.

I remember one day when I had not had breakfast and was famished. Once I got my students through the line, I pulled out my chair, plopped down at the teacher table, and felt moisture. In fact, I felt a LOT of moisture. I got up and saw a puddle in my chair. The cafeteria manager came out and put her nose down to it and took several sniffs. She declared that it definitely was not apple juice which by that time I had pretty much figured out on my own. It turns out that one of the children who had eaten breakfast earlier couldn't get to the bathroom fast enough. The teachers on lunch duty with me gave me looks of sympathy while  trying to hide the giggles that they were taking great pains to suppress!

I walked bow legged down to the Principal's office to ask if I could go home to change my pants. It was embarrassing to say the least because I remember them being linen and just clinging to my skin. He sat there laughing for a minute and then  declared that in all his years, he had encountered plenty of children that needed to go home to change wet pants. He went on to say that I was definitely the first teacher that had made such a request. I felt so special..............NOT!

This school picture was actually taken later in the day. Needless to say, I was wearing another pair of pants!