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

[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!

[kurdith]

You're taller. 'Course you could!

[treehugging]

The that means we can climb better and higher because we can jump to the next branch better!

[kurdith]

No, it just means you can jump. You're not better'n me!

[treehugging]

Ada says we're better that Dwarves, so it must be true.

[kurdith]

And Uncle Thorin says we're better than Elves. They can't both be right!

[treehugging]

Then your uncle lies because Ada would never lie to me.

[kurdith]

[Kíli flies at Legolas for that, pummeling him with his tiny fists]

Don't you call Uncle Thorin a liar!

omg XD

[treehugging]

[Legolas tries to block Kili's punches by crossing his arms in front of him, but at least one blow hits his face. He pushes Kili off him, hard, then holds a hand over his eye and begins to wail.]

[kurdith]

[he ain't even sorry]

I didn't call your ada a liar so you shouldn't've called Uncle a liar!

[treehugging]

[The child wipes his tears, gently so with the bruised eye.]

B-but if your uncle does not lie, then Ada lies, and Ada does not lie!

[Did he...? In such confusion over the state of his father's honesty, some small tears begin to trail down his face again, as quickly as he had wiped them away.]

[kurdith]

Neither does Thorin!