Ratting Out the One You Love

      One night we were at my children’s elementary school for Alex’s orchestra concert. There was a sign that was hanging that said ‘WELCOME’. Adam was asking me about it. "What did it say?"

    "Welcome" I reply.

    "Why is it red and white?" he asks. 

    "Because those are the colors that were chosen for the sign" I tell him.

     He is still studying it and I know we have more we are going to discuss about the sign and it’s origins. After a minute or so he says "Ok, I get it. The ‘o’ is silent."  Huh? Alright, I let that one go for now, the explaining is more than I can do some days, besides, he is learning to read at school and this is a good one for his teacher to answer and explain.

 

            At parent/teacher conferences this year we heard a few things that we really didn’t expect. Adam and Drew are in the same kindergarten class so conferences were easy. What we learned was that Adam will raise his hand to get his teacher’s attention…to tell on his brother. There are two kids named Drew in the same class this year so my son is known as Drew B. Adam raised his hand in class to tell his teacher that Drew B. wasn’t doing his work. When I asked him about this he denied it all but since I heard it from the one who called on him when he was telling on his brother, I believe that he did rat his brother out.