Why Life Stinks According to a Nine-Year-Old Girl

I teach over 530 children.  One of my students (age 9) wrote a list of why life stinks.  She didn't show it to anyone, but her mom found it.  Luckily, her mother appreciated her perspective and shared it with me.  I've changed the name to protect the guilty, but the spelling is exactly as she wrote it.  I'm not sure what the x's are for number 12, but it raises even more questions.

Lisa’s Resens Life Stinks

1.    Vegies

2.    School

3.    Annoying siblings

4.    Uncomfortable seats

5.    Math

6.    Robbers

7.    Talking

8.    Brustle sprouts

9.    People being mean

10.  No pool

11.  Not allowed voting for kids

12.  No xxxxxx for president

13.  Mom’s nagging you

14.  Chewed up toys

15.  Being slobbered on

16.  Itchy seat belts

17.  Having to share

18.  No day dreaming in school

19.  Not getting to use imagination

20.  devision

21.  Not being able to drive

22.  Not picking your clothes out

23.  Not picking your nose

24.  Being emberrised

25.  No getting your own money out of your bank account

26.  Do not feed the animals

27.  No free pets

28.  No free food

29.  Having to have an adult with you every second of the day

30.  Not going into store alone

31.  Not allowed to TP someones house

32.  No water ballones

33.  No doing your own hair

34.  Not allowed to be a kid