I Have to Brag

You know those days when you feel like you're just not getting through to your children about anything. When they won't listen and their behavior is out of control, you feel like you're fighting a losing battle. There are even times when maybe you feel like you're not teaching them the right spiritual lessons and values.

But then something like this happens...Logan has had a really bad week at school behavior wise this last week. He has had his color changed every day, for the teachers you know what I mean. Their color list is blue=good behavior, yellow=lose 5 min. playtime, orange=lose 15 min. playtime, green=lose all of playtime and note goes home, red=trip to principal's office and call to parents. As a mom and a teacher, I try not to overreact, but before the holidays, he came home on yellow two days in one week and on orange another day. The last day he wasn't there long enough to get in any trouble. So overall, not a great week. This week he has come home on yellow everyday until yesterday. One day, he even had to work his way back up to yellow which means he ended up somewhere lower than that early on in the day and improved his behavior by the end of the day. I'm glad he did that, but I was still not happy about his behavior and being on yellow.

The reason he was on yellow, his mouth. He can't seem to stop talking. So, we had several long talks about his talking and behavior in school and how he's being rude and disrespectful to his teacher and the other kids in his class. He was also disciplined and had privileges removed until his behavior improved. We also made him go back to school and apologize to his teacher. One of the things we tried to talk to him about was that his behavior was disappointing to us and to God. We told him that God had put us and his teacher in charge to keep him safe and raise him the right way. We also reminded him that God is watching over him and sees when he makes these bad choices. In his evening prayers one night, we asked God to help him remember to make good choices and be better behaved.

I emailed his teacher as well about all of his behavior issues and one other thing I needed her help with. This morning she emailed me back and this is directly copied from her email. "Oh and by the way Logan's behavior was much better yesterday. Thank you for working with me. He is a very sweet boy, he really blessed my heart yesterday when we were finding sentences for the word "four" - Logan said " For the Lord God is with me...." LOVE IT, TOO CUTE!" Maybe, just maybe, we are getting through to him and doing something right. I sure pray so.