happy hump day, gracious readers!
in my classroom family we talk a lot about "big deals" vs. "little deals." for example, "i know this is difficult, but it truly is a little deal that he told you duck dynasty isn't real." or, "it is 100 percent a little deal that she looked at you with a funny eyebrow." i believe it is important to teach our children to decipher the little deals from the big deals. it builds their character and helps them grow into wise decision makers. some days it's easier to determine the little deals from the big ones. everybody has to work at it. kids, teachers, parents, people. today i was having a hard time remembering my own advice. i kept turning little deals into big ones. i let little annoyances that would normally never bother me get under my skin. by lunchtime i was beginning to worry that my piss-poor attitude was shutting the kids off from learning. i said a quick prayer and headed down to pick my kids up from music. and then i noticed g. the kids were about to head up to the library to take a test on the computers and my bright and spunky g seemed to be lacking her usual sparkle. i sent the rest of the pack up and pulled g aside to ask her what was wrong. she immediately burst into tears. between gulps of air she explained that she had burped in music class and everyone had heard. can you even believe!? burped! out loud! the horror! i smiled to myself, took her in my arms, and held her tight. because when you're seven and you burp in front of a group of people: it's a big fricken deal. we munched on some smarties, read splat the cat, and were on our merry way. i had a hard time being salty about my day after that. it's funny how life works like that. some days it's easy to pick out the little deals from the big ones, i tell my nuggets. what's most important though is how you respond to any kind of problem you may face. and that's a good lesson for learners of all ages on this cold january day. xo, ld
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