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Friday, January 18, 2019

What Goes Around Comes Around - A Snippet

Ask a Prince Scholar about my role as their Official Adopted Grandmother and you'll hear about stickers.  Smiley faces and baseballs and puppies, hearts and dinosaurs and clouds, I place them on t-shirts and cheeks.  They are a shared smile between us, an intimate moment on the playground, in the classroom, in the garden, surrounded by others but alone, for an instant.

In general, I try not to interrupt the orderly flow of the student body, reminding the Scholars to wave-but-don't-shout, to keep-up-with-the-group, to be well-behaved so that I don't get into trouble for distracting them.  So it was noteworthy when the kindergartener with the small set of stickers in her hand left the line I was following to place one on my chest.
The teacher and I got a little misty as I croaked out a Thank You!  Who says kindness can't be taught?
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4 comments:

  1. dkzodyJanuary 18, 2019 at 9:37 AM

    Don't you just love it when they bring you a "treat!"

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    1. Ashleigh BurroughsJanuary 20, 2019 at 5:54 PM

      I was cleaning shelves today (see tomorrow's post!)and found myself clutching those *treasures* to my chest.
      a/b

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  2. StacyJanuary 18, 2019 at 10:53 AM

    So sweet and the sticker was so appropriate. I love the title of this post, but also thinking of it as paying it forward. I love that concept and these children are learning that too--from you!

    Thank you for sharing the kids from Prince with us.


    Stacy xxx

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    1. Ashleigh BurroughsJanuary 20, 2019 at 5:55 PM

      They make my heart sing :-)
      Glad you like the stories. I'm trying to avoid politics; seems if I dip a toe in the whole foot gets swallowed up in the muck.
      a/b

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