Really Doing It

Well, I'm really doing it. Today I was as strict as can be. On our behavior chart, I usually only have two or three kids each day who need to move their names, and today I had 15. Not because they were being unusually bad, but because I was being unusually rigid and tough. Those 15 kids will spend choice-time writing about their behavior tomorrow, while my 7 who stayed on green (assuming they can also stay there tomorrow morning), will get to play for 30 minutes. Guess whether or not I had some tears? Kendal just about lost it. She told me later, "Do you know what I'm going to do when I get home? I'm going to put down my backpack, walk down the tile hallway, go to my room, and cry." I think she may have been trying to guilt me into giving her free choice time back. It's not happening. But I still love her.

As exhausting (and sometimes unreasonable-feeling) as this new rigidity is, I am much happier than I was before. And we actually got to have some time to learn today! So there you have it.

I am now done with parent-teacher conferences (besides three that went rogue and are next week) and got home from work well after 7:00 tonight. Pooped, pooped, pooped.