The Arda kindergarten AU meme

[durinsdaughter]

~ Arda nursery, kindergarten and pre-school ~


[source]

1. You are a kid! Maybe you are a toddler in nursery or already in pre-school, or anywhere in between, but you are a kid who comes here more or less regularly, interacts with other kids and the teachers and the nurse and is dropped off in the morning and picked up sometime later during the day.
2. You are an adult! Maybe you are a teacher, or doing an internship, or you are a parent or older sibling picking up their kid, or the nurse or whatever an adult would do in such a place...
...of course you can change which one your muse is depending on whom they thread with.

And as for scenarios - you can of course do whatever you want, but a few ideas:
I. The first day in kindregarten. Being left behind by mommy or daddy, encountering new friends, so many things to discover...
II. Nap time! Maybe you just need to tell your friend this story before falling asleep. Or your teddy has gotten lost. And as for adults, oftentimes the parents will be present for the first few days of nursery to ease their child into things. Don't glare too many daggers at that other parents who is easing their child into the situation at the same time, you might make a child cry... Cuddling with their child is a much nicer option, yes?
III. Playground! Maybe you build a sandcastle together, or maybe you kick each others sandcastle down, who knows? Or maybe you are in the crafts room, or in the dolls corner, or you are having a class...
IV. Uh oh. Something isn't going too smoothly, and you have to mend things with another child or explain yourself to a teacher or maybe discuss a case with another staff member, or even call in the parents...
V. Field trip! Or maybe it is some holiday, or a birthday/conception day is happening in your group, or or or...

Comments

[treehugging]

[Runs after.]

She won't play with you she's my friend!

[kurdith]

She's my friend, too! She's more my friend!

[treehugging]

Nuh-uh!

[Catches up with (hey, longer legs) tries to grab ball from.]

I'm a better friend than you!

[kurdith]

[Kíli just flops down, hugging the ball to him tightly]

Nuh-uh! I give her my cookies and call her strong and nice and pretty and fun and better than all the other people 'cept for Fíli and Ori and Gimli!

[treehugging]

[Tries to pull on the ball.]

W-well she climbs trees with me all the time! And we look at stars! and...and...and... GIMLI LOOKS LIKE A GOBLIN MUTANT!

[kurdith]

I'm gonna tell him you said that! But Tauriel is my friend an' she can be yours but she's my friend more.

[treehugging]

NUH-UH!

[Pulls much harder, loses grip and falls on his butt... and then there are cranky tears.]

[kurdith]

[And Kíli hates it when people cry so he gets up (keeping the ball firmly away from Legolas) and looks at him]

Do you need an adult?

[treehugging]

[Wipes tears away.]

Noooo I'm a big Elf!

[kurdith]

You can still want your adad or amad or Lindir or Elrond or...whoever.

[treehugging]

[Calming down now.]

What's an adad and amad?

[kurdith]

Parents!

[Duh]

Adad is a papa and Amad is a mama. I don't have an adad 'cause mine died.

[treehugging]

Oh. Ada and Nana.

[Sadface.]

...my Nana's in the Halls of Mandos.

[kurdith]

Is that where dead Elves go?

[treehugging]

It's where the fëa goes. The insides here.

[He puts a hand over his heart.]

Where do Dwarves go?

[kurdith]

I'm not allowed t'say. It's a secret.

[treehugging]

[frown, but not hostile at all.]

That's not fair. You got to know about the Halls of Mandos.

[kurdith]

Well we don't go there? We go somewhere else. I just can't tell you where.

[treehugging]

Why can't I know?

[kurdith]

'Cause you're not a Dwarf and I dunno?

[treehugging]

I don't want to be a Dwarf. They're short and can't climb so good.

[kurdith]

Hey! I climb good! I'm the best climber in my whole family!

lost this to the DW gods...

[treehugging]

But you got short legs and arms! How can you get up high? Elves climb better.

[kurdith]

I jump, duh. An' use rocks and stuff.

[treehugging]

I bet an Elf could jump higher!