A cradle is a cupcake paper filled with sausage, scrambled eggs and cheese and a little bread or cracker on the bottom. Kids love these, and they ate sixty of them yesterday and would have eaten more. About 95% of the kids love these.
Yesterday was picture day. Miss Beve was there all morning. She photographed every single child, so if your child was not slated for pictures, there is one taken anyway. The kids always enjoy the shoot. They like watching her work. She's a master at her craft and often raises her craft to an art. The kids are just beautiful, and she brings that out so well. We are very grateful to her for all she does for us.
Today is a movie day. It's a gift to the parents for all the days missed because of weather. It's our way of saying we love you. We'll be leaving at 11:15 to see Horton Hears a Who, and then returning after for a late pizza lunch. We wanted to do something outdoors, but it's supposed to rain again, so we chose the movie.
One of the things the faculty has been talking about concerning summer is child behavior. In the last few weeks, we've expelled two children - which we've never done - for behavior we no longer want to deal with. It's been a grand relief to go to school without the thought that one or another brutal behaviors will not be facing us.
What we have come to understand as a faculty, is that children model parents. That's where they get their behaviors, and even the best of parents can model behaviors that a child copies inappropriately. What we see is that a child who is aggressive is seeing something in the home that's aggressive. it could be movies; it could be music; it could be a parent's response to the world.
A child who is demanding is seeing a parent make inappropriate demands in his or her life. A child who is disruptive is the product of a home where there are few rules that apply to the adults as well. As an example, a parent who listens to very loud music all the time is teaching a child that it's OK to disrupt the normal stage of the house, and that what really matters is the individual not the group. So the child goes off to the public arena and does just that - he's disruptive in a noisy inconsiderate way as if to say, "This is what I learned at home; I'm cute?"
Maliciousness, dishonesty, and laziness are all learned. They are not a natural desire. Children are born good. In infancy, with their first smile, they want to please, to be loved, to be treated fairly and to be understood. When that does not happen, they look to the behaviors they see in their homes and they model them. When a parent rejects a child's attentions, the child will become disobedient. Why should the response be positive if the parent is not going to accept anything he does? If a parent ignores a child, the child will naturally ask why and begin to take care of himself, which nearly always goes awry because a child never has the full picture. He or she was not meant to care for themselves.
Most recently I've been working on nutrition which I'm sure everyone is tired of, but if you look at a home that encourages or allows a child to be obese simply out of ease or neglect, the child is going to learn sloth. Telling a child that he is so unimportant as to ruin his health because it's easier to feed him the wrong things than to make the effort to keep him healthy is a savage attack on a child.
The parent is the primary educator of the child, and the home is the foundation where he or she is formed. The school is only a sounding board for the family and continued response to the family's ideals and dreams for their child. We expect this summer to be a wonderful experience with not a single disruptive child.
In April a summer packet will be given out to all parents who have signed up for summer.
Next week we will be handing out calendars. Please read the back for details about our month of April.
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