Sweet Boy
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I'm not going to lie...Christian has been driving me crazy lately. He is at that age where he wants to argue with everything I say and he seems completely convinced that if he asks the same question over and over again he will somehow magically get the answer he is looking for. I'm not a patient person by nature so this has been a very trying time for us.
Then, last night, I went to happy hour for a friend's birthday and no less than 3 people commented that they always talk about their friend Christian and what a remarkable little boy he is.
Two days a week I go to Christian's school for work and the other day his teacher told me to remind her to tell me a couple of stories. I never got a chance to talk with her but the suspense was killing me so I gave her a quick call this morning. She said that they have been doing timed math and she always tells them that when the timer goes off they are to put their pencils down and stop working. Well, the other day, the timer went off and she picked up all of the papers. Afterwards, Christian came up to her desk and said "Mrs. Clifton, I am really sorry but I kept working after the timer went off. I know that I'm not supposed to do that." She said that she would have never known that he kept working had he not told her (and it isn't even that big of a deal) but she was so proud of his character for admitting what he did. She went on to say that the next time they did timed math he finished all of his problems and one of his little friends did not. The friend started to get a little upset seeing what everyone else had done. Christian was the first to step up and say "It's okay, you did the best you could!"
Her exact words were "You should be very proud of that boy." Boy, are we ever!!
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