Here is a note I received from Mary Clare’s music teacher last week…<\/p>\n
“Mary Clare sometimes has temper tantrums in music class.\u00a0 She gets upset that she can’t be first all the time.\u00a0 Yesterday, she wanted to be a pig in one of our activities; however, she was not chosen.\u00a0 I told her that next time she would be chosen.\u00a0 She put her hand on her hips, shook her head and said, ‘No, I won’t.’\u00a0 I told her to have a seat.\u00a0 She said, ‘No, I’m not.’\u00a0\u00a0 This is when I sent her back to her classroom.”<\/em><\/p>\n Hmmm.\u00a0 Well,<\/em> after thinking and thinking about how to approach this situation, I thought it would be best to pull out my teacher hat.\u00a0\u00a0 With my mom hat on, I wanted to march into Ms. Music’s classroom and defend my sweet, innocent baby girl.\u00a0\u00a0 I quickly came to my senses once I realized I didn’t want to be that mom.<\/em> The one I’ve dealt with so many times before as a teacher.\u00a0 I decided to change my tune.\u00a0 I certainly had to “take a moment.”<\/p>\n Later, I had a little chat with her about having respect for her teachers.\u00a0 In all honesty, however,\u00a0 I’m so glad she has spunk.\u00a0 As anyone else, she is not perfect, will never be and probably has a long road ahead of her, with her little spunk and all. \u00a0 At age three , she has so much to learn and so many life experiences ahead of her. \u00a0\u00a0 Her little note home isn’t terribly surprising. \u00a0 I certainly see so much of her little “spunk” at home.\u00a0\u00a0 Deep down, I know she has just enough of that little spark in her to take her far.\u00a0 For that I am so grateful.<\/p>\n This is probably the first of many “notes home” for my little spunky spirit.\u00a0\u00a0 I’m choosing to see it as a little life lesson for her\u00a0 and another small reminder of all that is wonderful in my life.\u00a0 She is here with me.\u00a0\u00a0 She is thriving in school. \u00a0 She is able and does a fine job of getting into mischief at school.\u00a0 She is living her life.\u00a0 For that I will thank God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here is a note I received from Mary Clare’s music teacher last week… “Mary Clare sometimes has temper tantrums in music class.\u00a0 She gets upset that she can’t be first all the time.\u00a0 Yesterday, she wanted to be a pig in one of our activities; however, she was not chosen.\u00a0 I told her that next […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4619"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4624,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4619\/revisions\/4624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}