MEXICO CITY — A 10-year-old Mexican boy dreaded returning to school after Christmas break so much that he glued his hand to his bed.
Sandra Palacios spent nearly two hours Monday morning trying to free her son Diego's hand with water, oil and nail polish remover before calling authorities, police chief Jorge Camacho told The Associated Press from outside the northern city of Monterrey.
"I didn't want to go to school because vacation was so much fun," Reforma newspaper quoted the boy as saying.
Palacios said Diego sneaked into the kitchen in the early morning to get the industrial glue, which he then slathered on his right hand. She didn't hear him get up, but later awoke and found him watching TV with his hand stuck to the bed, she told Mexican newspaper El Universal.
"I don't know why he did it," she told Reforma. "He's a good boy, but mischievous like all kids."
Diego's hand was fine, and paramedics managed to unstick him in time for class.
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VOCABULARY LIST :
dreaded - to feel extremely anxious or frightened about something that is going to happen or that might happen
sneaked - to go somewhere secretly, or to take someone or something somewhere secretly
slathered - to spread something thickly on something else
mischievous - behaving in a way, or describing behaviour, which is slightly bad but is not intended to cause serious harm or damage
DISCUSSION POINTS :
1. What can you say about the boy in the article?
2. If you were the mother, would you punish the child after what he did?
3. If you were a parent, how would you encourage a child to go to school?
4. When you were a young student, how did you feel about going to school?Are you the type who is
always excited to attend class or the type who would make a lot of excuses just to skip class?
5. Have you ever experienced the same feeling as that of the young boy?In your case,what kind of silly
excuses did you make just to avoid going to school?