Making Life Easy

I was talking to a 7th grader today who had gotten in trouble for talking back to a teacher when the teacher had asked him to take off some purple latex gloves he was wearing. He didn’t understand why the teacher had a problem with him wearing the gloves and made an issue of it before he took them off. The teacher told him to leave the class.

He’s a smart kid but didn’t know why he was getting in trouble for seeing things his way. In our discussion, I told him that why the teacher wanted him to take off the gloves wasn’t important. It was important for him to say, “Okay” and to take direction without an explanation in the situation because he’ll need that ability when he gets a job one day.

After we talked about it, the director of a program I’ve worked on came in the room. I let the director know that a student wanted to help out at an event and what the student wanted to do. The director immediately said, “No”, and told me what he wanted the student to do. I said, “Okay” when he finished talking and the 7th grader said, “I get it.”

Blessings!
Laura

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