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| 178.1 | Kids can be.... | A1VAX::DISMUKE | Say you saw it in NOTES... | Tue Jun 16 1992 17:06 | 22 |
| Kids can be so thoughtful!!!
My son is in Readiness in Nashua. Each student is assigned a "6th
grade buddy" for the school year. My son went to the school store the
other day and bought himself a ruler. He told me the teacher is
allowing them to attend the "graduation" of the 6th graders and he is
going to give his "buddy" his ruler for a graduation gift.
I am so proud of him!
On the contrary...Kids can be so mean!
He is having a birthday party in a few weeks. He invited a bunch of
kids from his class including a new boy. He wants to be friends with
the new boy, but the other classmates told him they wouldn't be his
friend if he played with the new boy! He said he didn't care - he
wanted to have the new boy come, too.
I am glad he has the guts to stick to what is right for him!
-sandy
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| 178.2 | | NEWPRT::NEWELL_JO | Latine loqui coactus sum | Mon Jul 13 1992 15:00 | 36 |
| This is more of a "brag" than anything...
This weekend, our 7 year old daughter, Amber found $25.00 in an
envelope at a local Target store. Without hesitation she suggested
we take it to security to hopefully find the rightful owner. While she
was filing the report, two adults complimented her on her honesty
and told her how proud she and her parents should be.
The store manager told Amber the money was her is it wasn't claimed
in 30 days. That thought certainly made her happy.
About a half hour after we got home the phone rang and a little girl
asked for Amber. It was the girl that lost the money. They had a brief
conversation and Amber hung up a little dissapointed.
The next morning we got a phone call from a woman. This woman explained
that the girl who lost the money was a seven year old who lived in a
home for abused children. The woman was Britanny's 'buddy' and had
taken her to Target to teach her the value of money. Brittany had been
saving this money for months and had carefully placed it in the
envelope, holding it tightly for safekeeping. But as we all know,
little minds wander sometime and the money was forgotten.
They didn't find anything to buy at Target and left for home. Once home
they realized the money was gone. Britanny cried while the buddy
called Target. Of course, the money was waiting there for them.
The woman was so impressed with Amber and told us it restored alot
of trust and faith in the little girl and that many valuable lessons
were learned that day. Amber felt *very* good after hearing the story.
Yes, a lot of valuable lessons were learned by *everyone*!
I'm so proud of my little girl!
Jodi-
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| 178.3 | Assumptions | SALEM::GILMAN | | Mon Aug 24 1992 15:42 | 16 |
| My son said something last week which staggered me because it
illustrates both kids perception and Socities attitutudes.
Matt has been warned about going with strangers with no gender
overtones attached. That is, he wasn't told not to go with strange
women, or strange men, just strangers.
Matt said out of the blue: "Dad, are strangers ALWAYS men?!"
After I recovered I explained that strangers ment men OR women.
But he acurately reflected Socities attitude.... especially when
crimes with sexual overtones are involved a man is assumed to be the
offender rather than a woman.
Jeff
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| 178.4 | | POWDML::SATOW | | Mon Aug 24 1992 18:09 | 12 |
| re: 273.22
> Oddly, when her sister was born, Abbey announced she would give it [her
> pacifier] to her.
What a neat kid! The true value of a gift is what it means to the receiver
and to the giver, not its intrinsic value. Of course, Taylor had no way of
knowing the value of the gift. But Abbey gave up something that was very
important to her, and something that she thought would be of great value
to her sister.
Clay
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| 178.5 | It really does happen! | ASIC::MYERS | | Tue Jun 28 1994 12:23 | 13 |
| For the past 2 months my daughter Sarah, almost 26 mos, has been asking
to use the potty, but this has been more of an excuse to take all of her
clothes off than to actually use it 8^).
Yesterday when I picked her up at daycare her teacher said that she had
asked to use the potty in the afternoon and then actually produced!
Last night she asked twice and produced twice, too! Then she told me
she didn't want to wear diapers anymore, so this weekend we're going
shopping for big girl underwear.
I don't know who's more proud and excited, me or Sarah!
Susan
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