this week has felt so long…today should have been Friday. In fact, yesterday should have been Friday! sigh.
On Monday, we had our first community night in about two weeks, which was really nice: we’ve been really scattered lately it feels and our community has felt pretty disconnected. We’ll see if anything comes of the discussion…
On Tuesday, I had to break up a fight between two boys – 2nd and 3rd grade. They were friends, too! And it all started over some stolen pieces of CookieCrisp: S got mad about it and stole Z’s picture. He wouldn’t give it back, so Z pushed him, and S punched back. That’s when I got in between them to stop it and keep them apart from each other. It was pretty intense – probably the most intense moment I’ve had all year in terms of adrenaline, even including the two days when I had to run the homework club by myself. The good thing is, when we brought their moms in to talk about it with them, there was no angry threatening language used toward the kids, and the resolution was not harsh punishment but rather an agreement between the boys that they were going to be friends, not enemies.
To celebrate St. Patty’s Day that night, we went over to the Philly house and had dinner with them and then went out to a bar in
Yesterday was fine, but I was super tired all day today, and didn’t have much patience for the kids. They kept on coming up to me and tattling on all the misbehavior that was going on: he said this to her, she used this word, she did this to him, he said this… most of these occurrences were happening in other rooms and not to the kids who were reporting it. I was trying to help kids do their homework, and my only reaction was to want to shout “I don’t care, stop bugging me!” I didn’t, but I was seriously annoyed. Once I got home, I just sat on the couch all evening feeling like a despondent lump and watched TV.
Thank goodness tomorrow is Friday.
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