Mom sees shocking message husband sent teacher, then has realization

A 5-year-old girl on her second day home sick from school took the opportunity to play on the iPad—and send a message to her teacher from her dad’s account.

Her mother, who posts to Reddit under the username u/Anderama, explained to Newsweek: “My daughter was home sick and since I was working remotely, I let her take her iPad upstairs to chill.”

As she worked, she noticed a notification on her phone and realized it was a message from her daughter’s teacher, asking if she would be in today.

And while it looked as though her husband had already replied to the message, she quickly realized it was her daughter, responding from the iPad upstairs. As Anderama described it: “I opened it up and immediately saw the big long message and it was full-on crazy.

“I saw that it said it was from my husband so I texted him asking if he was trying to message in the app and it went horribly wrong somehow. He said no. Well then it all clicked!”

Anderama, who did not give her real name, shared a screengrab of the group chat between herself, her husband and her daughter’s teacher to Reddit’s r/MadeMeSmile sub, showing the message her daughter had sent via voice-to-text, with names blocked out.

In response to the teacher’s question: “Will [kid] be making it to school today?” Anderama’s “husband” responded: “I love you. I love you. I love you so much and I love you too. Miss [teacher’s name] here love you’re the best teacher ever. I know that I am the best dude ever the best.”

The message then fell into apparent gibberish, with some words constantly repeated, and then a line from a Frozen song thrown into the mix.

“She hit the little mic button and turned on talk to text, then started telling her teacher how much she loved her,” Anderama explained, calling it “so cute.”

“You might also notice she was listening to Frozen songs because it got picked up near the end!”

Anderama’s daughter wasn’t done however, as after the Frozen lyrics were over, she sent another message: “I know you sent out a message looking for me, but I’m sick. I just sneezed. I was also coughing a lot. Don’t have to send me to school and send me to the nurse.”

But both Anderama and her husband quickly stepped in, sending their own messages explaining their daughter was replying on the iPad, to which her teacher responded: “LOL!!!! [Name] feel better soon!”

Reddit users loved the post, with one calling it “so cute” and another joking: “Me play, me no school, me sick.”

The family lives in Missouri, and Anderama gave a “shout out” to the teachers of the St Louis Public Schools, who “mean so much to their students.”

In the United States, more students are enrolled in public schools than in private, according to data from Statista. In 2022, an estimated 15.8 million students were enrolled in public high schools across the country, compared to 1.36 million private high schools.

When it came to elementary schools, the difference was just as stark, with 29.35 million students in public schools compared to 3.03 million in private elementary schools.

Anderama told Newsweek they “all had a good laugh” over the messages, and added there was “no doubt our kiddo has a ton of love for her teacher.”

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