It's been a hard week for Zach in Kindergarten. Getting out of the car, pulling him behind me, trying to get him to let go to go into his classroom and see him struggle while his teacher gets him to his seat. Then, I found out on Friday, he had been crying in his seat for two days til circle time. I tell him he's going to be okay, he'll be fine, just listen to his teacher, (even if she happens to use a bit of a harsh, commanding voice that I don't use) ect. Then I worry til I go and pick him up, which turns out to be a waste, because he comes out of school happy! Next morning, same old misery for both of us. I think it's getting better and I'm sure it will, but in the mean time, we're doing our best to encourage him. I'm learning too, that you shouldn't yell at the teacher through an open window for raising her voice at your child. You just can't calm down well for the rest of the day.
Conference
A side note: This is the my first experience getting a child to school every-school-day-on-time. I will add that it's pretty much up to me to make it happen. My leisure mornings are a thing of the past, and upcoming summer. Relish the days folks, relish the days. A wise friend once told me to stop feeling bad about the moments when being a mom is easy. She said that sure enough, there will be days and nights when it'll be hard and we'll long for those times. Michelle was right. It all evens out.
We had the blessing of hearing from Elder Maynes at Stake Conference (he's in the presidency of the Seventy). He gave an awesome talk and I could even listen to him for hours (fortunately he kept to his time frame.) He is witty, funny and can explain it all with the Spirit. Some people have a gift of speaking, I am not one of them, but I do appreciate hearing from those who do.
Elder Maynes talked about choices, habits, traditions and culture - how one leads to the next. Where do our choices lead? He said, "when you make a choice, you've taken a position and become a teacher of that position." Then he gave this example on Family Home Evening: if parents choose to not have it (for whatever reason), they're teaching their kids the FHE isn't important. In primary they learn that the prophet said to hold FHE. The parents are teaching them to not follow the prophet.
It made me think what am I "teaching" my kids by not doing, or doing. What, as he put it, "false traditions" are in our family. The best way, he taught, was to replace them with celestial/good traditions. The example he gave was if the tradition is not reading the scriptures together, replace it with a good tradition of reading the scriptures together.
4 comments:
You yelling at the teacher through an open window is just priceless to me! LOL Keep it up, Z, you can do it! :)
Meanwhile, Scarlett started preschool on Friday. I decided it had to be done. So Guy AND Scarlett are now in preschool together (different classes, but the same time of day...) It's quite remarkable! :)
I love you, Renae!! You are a wonderful mama and your kiddoes are so blessed to have you. xoxo
I hope things get better soon in the kindergarten department. It is no fun worrying about our kids!!
I loved Elder Maynes as a speaker too. He was really good and thanks for sharing his thoughts from the adult session (I missed that session). And I am assuming that are his thoughts from the adult session, otherwise I didn't do as good of a job listening during stake conference as I thought!
Ditto to what Jan said. You are a wonderful mother! One that I admire...a lot.
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