My favorite response: "It's beautiful! Can you tell me about it?" What they say is usually way better than what I can imagine. And most of the children I deal with gladly soak up any attention from an adult.
My kindergarten teacher came back in yesterday. She wanted large pictures of beans sprouting. No other seed would work. I told her she could go to a copy shop and enlarge a picture, but she said they wouldn't do it for her because it's copyrighted. I told her she is completely within her rights to use the pictures because she is using them for nonprofit educational purposes, hopefully this won't come back to bite me later. And still I have not had a thank you!
