Well, we had our first "welcome to public school moment." today. We were walking to school (day #4) and Grace said, "A girl at my table said she is going to bring her big strong sister to fight me today." Excuse me???? I asked a few questions including if she had shared this information with her teacher. Her response is so precious I had to record it, "No, mom I didn't want to get her in trouble. I want to try and make a friend out of her." We talked about wether she felt scared and if she thought the girl was telling the truth. Then I assured her the girl wouldn't be able to follow through on her threat. She seemed okay with things so I encouraged her to keep trying to make a new friend and by that time we were at school. Mentally I was debating wether to mention it to her teacher. I didn't want to seem like the over protective "my first child just went to kindergarten" mother. However, the teacher part of me would want to know if that kind of statement was being make in my classroom. So, I stopped by to see Grace's teacher and let her know what had happened. I am hoping I made the right choice. I will encourage Grace to share those type of things with her teacher in the future, however I know she made the right choice by seeing past a threat and seeing a child who needed a friend. Isn't that just what Jesus would have done? Oh, to have faith like my child.
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