But then he got really upset and said "My homework made me sick. We started it in school and it made me really sick!"
Slightly confused, I looked in his backpack and laughed to myself when I saw the assignment. "James, your homework can't make you sick. Words can't make you sick. It's just a poem. Let's sit down and do it together".
James was so upset he could barely make it through the worksheet. We finally managed to finish it and I told him he could go play on the iPad while I made dinner.
He barely ate dinner, and an hour later wanted to go to bed. He was burning up. He spent the next 2 weeks out of school with pneumonia.
When he finally went back to school last Thursday, I told his teacher and we laughed. "Ah, the power of words" she said.
Power of words indeed. This was his homework:
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