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Back to School night was yesterday for us and I had one jam packed room. If you didn't know I am a teacher, 4th grade. If you are a parent you probally understand and know this. You really don't care what your kids are going to be learning, you care more about the teacher and if they are going to be a compatent teacher for your child. Or are you going to be like this teacher whipping the students the first chance you can.  4th grade really is a fun grade they want to learn.  I asked a ? of why 4th grade was the best one of my students said it was because we would be learning Cursive.    So it is just like the old saying.

They don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

wes

A dog named Sheldon

Boys and puppies have a connection.
Our dog recently had puppies and my kids loved that, (I wasn't to thrilled about it, but...). One of the puppies was pretty smart and was able to get out of the pen that I had built for them. This was a smart puppy. So he started running around with my kids and my boy named him Sheldon. He had to have gotten it from his teacher's husband's name. Well my son and this puppy really had a connection, they knew what each other was going to do. My wife and I told our kids that they could keep this puppy if they took care of it. One of our neighbors kids wanted a puppy. What do you know they wanted this Sheldon, I didn't say anything about that he was the one that was named. Like a guy that had to many puppies, I was trying to get rid of them and let them take him. Yes that ended up braking my kids, and especially my boys heart.

Sometimes we as parents forget about what things are important to our kids. I hope that I will become more concerned about their feeling and desires.

Love your kids, and make sure that they know it.

Wes

Back to School

Life is just like "Back to School." How does it compare you say? Well doesn't it happen every year. It happens every year about the same time. Without fail Teachers will start getting their rooms ready. Parents and kids will be clogging up the stores buying school clothes and supplies. Buses will be on the road again. "Back to school" night will come and go and then there will be the first day of school. It is a cycle isn't it? You can look in life, any part of life and see cycles. The earth and moon have cycles, then there is summer, spring, fall and winter. Plants go through cycles. So do we as humans go through cycles, whether it is physical or not. Now that I think of it I don't know why I related "Back to School" with Cycles.

There is one thing that we can see it as. It is a consent thing in our lives. It will always happen. We may not be going to school or have a family member going, but it is still going to happen. Each of us have constants in our lives, sometimes we need to build our lives around these, if they are important enough. Others or constants that can bless us and help give us direction.

Well enjoy this school year.

wes