Sometimes - actually many times, I have this feeling that these boys of mine have been raised well and are growing into such fine boys, amazing humans. It's happened so many times recently and I wanted to capture a little of it here.
One - is the beginning of an opinion piece Kuba had to write in school this week and his teacher came and showed it to me. The question was "Should kids be rewarded for doing chores?" Here's his opinion...
"In my opinion kids should not get rewarded for doing chores because your parents already do so much for you. Also if you grow up getting rewards you might not help anyone unless they give you something in return." Kuba
Two - and on the same note, though different kid, Anders had an experience in school a week or so ago that was also noteworthy. He was given a paper with a long list of things to do on it. The first thing it asked you to do was to write your name on the page. But then it got more fun. Really fun. You were asked to draw in the corner of the page. Write your name on the board. Pat your head and belly at the same time. Fly around the room - do your best sound effects. And more of the same. The only directions given were to read the whole page before starting. 24 kids in his class. Only 2 read the whole page. The other 22 jumped right in and started doing all sorts of fun things simultaneously until they got to # 27 on the list...which said, "Only accomplish #1. Flip your paper over and don't give the joke away. Open your book and pretend to read. Stay like this until the end of the activity." Anders was one of the two kids who read the whole thing first. Amazing, right?!
I remember doing this same exercise in 5th grade and I remember I LOVED doing it...until I got to the end and read the line that said to do nothing. I am so in awe of him.
I really am so damn proud of these two boys.
No comments:
Post a Comment