After nearly a decade of working with children I have been asked some pretty weird questions.  Ranging from queries about jell-o to if I had consummated my marriage (from a  student who had no clue what consummate means).

But the other day I had probably the weirdest question I have ever had. At least in my opinion. While I was in the middle of a lesson with two five year olds one of them looked at my face very intently, scrunched up her face and with a bit of an edge asked “Why are you wearing eye shadow?”.  Not expecting this question, for a number of reasons and a flurry of my own zooming through my head I simply looked back at her and calmly said “Because I wear it everyday.”  This reply seemed to satisfy her curiosity and  we moved on with the lesson.  But I still have questions of my own.