I received a nice treat this morning. A student from my 4th period class brought me cupcakes. Yesterday, in an attempt to be fair to all my students, I explained that my family would be suffering some extra stress in the near future due to my mother-in-law's bout with cancer and I apologized in advance in case I am to be moody, grumpy, and so on. Before 1st period, I heard a knock on the door and the student was there with a tray of cupcakes. She said, "I remember going through something like this with my grandma and the only thing that made me happy was cupcakes. So I thought you might like some cupcakes to cheer you up." Now that has to be one of the sweetest things a student has ever done for me and my family.
After school today, I was messing with Evan, teasing him. I took off his sneaker and as we pulled into the drive way, I threw it out of the sunroof. He got angry, at least he said he was, sometimes it is hard to tell if he is really angry because he does it so poorly! Well, we continued to play around; he had an empty 20 oz. plastic drink bottle that he went to hit me with. I threatened him with taking away anything that had to do with television today if he hit me with it. Well, he hit me anyway. But what was more impressive was that after we were done playing around like that, he didn't go to the television, playstation, or genesis nomad, and I didn't even have to say anything. What he didn't realize was that I wasn't serious about it at that time, but he respected me and when he chose to disobey me, he still obeyed his consequence without being reminded. That is quite impressive for a 5 (almost 6) year old.
"In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers." - Fred Rogers
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