Lil boy looked sad when his papa picked him from school today. Upon probing, we discovered that his sharpener was confiscated by his form teacher because he was not attentive in class - sharpening his pencil while his teacher was talking. He told me that I have to write a letter to his teacher so that he can get his sharpener back. That was a rule set by his teacher since Term 1.
I asked him, "Hmm... Why should I apologise to your teacher when I didn't do anything wrong? It doesn't make sense to me. If you've done something wrong, you yourself need to write a letter to apologise to your teacher for your own wrongdoing. Not mommy. Eg if the police wants to catch you because you've committed a crime, mommy is not going to the jail on your behalf. You need to own up to your mistakes and take responsibility for it."
Though Rb is small in stature, his pride is huge! He refused to write his apology letter. I want to use this opportunity to break his pride and his self-inflating ego. I want him to grow up to be a responsible boy and not to pinpoint his finger at someone else at the first instance of trouble. I want him to learn to humble himself and apologise for his own mistake. I told him that I'll support him in the spelling of the words and if he writes his apology letter, mommy will support him by writing my version of the apology letter to accompany his.
After counselling him for a while, he finally decided to pen his apology. It was a simple letter but I think it's a big lesson for him in many aspects! And as promised, I wrote my letter to his teacher and stapled both letters today.
I'm v thankful to her for being a firm teacher in disciplining the boys. When a class is in order and when the boys' learning attitude is in placed, half of the battle is won as the boys would have learnt good values such as self control and respect :)
I thank God for giving my children great teachers! Thank God for his favour!!
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