FROWNY FACE FOR SMOKEBOMB, HAPPY FACE FOR MACGYVER

Smoke Bomb's teacher has a discipline plan in her class that involves children moving their monkey from the tree when they are not behaving as expected. At the end of the day if you have too many monkeys moved, you receive a frowny face versus a smiley face. Smokebomb has not had one frowny face yet this year. Until yesterday.

I went to sign his behavior chart and saw the note from his teacher. He had a frowny face in the responsibility column. What had he done? Why such a long note from his teacher? Of course we take these things seriously, but we also know everyone makes mistakes sometime. So I read the letter from the teacher. And then I began to giggle. But first things first. Although I was tickled at what he had done, he still needed to understand how his actions were wrong.

I asked Smoke Bomb to explain to me why he had received the frowny face. He proceeded to tell me that he was in centers. His center was the play kitchen with lots of fake food and utensils. He took it upon himself to do something familiar. Something he considered fun. Something that came naturally to him. Something his Dada encourages him to do on a daily basis. He took some practice swings!! Smoke Bomb had created a game of baseball using the spatula to hit the pretend potato! The note from his teacher of course noted that this was not acceptable.....although very creative she said. And MacGyver agreed, of course! He was elated that baseball was on Smoke Bomb's mind. It was tough to be too upset at SmokeBomb when he was just following his roots! And I have to admit that if this is the worst thing he is doing in class, I am okay with that. Here's to many more smiley faces.....and perhaps a few "creative" frowny faces!