Elizabeth

I knew that as the kids got older they'd be faced with kids that did or talked about inappropriate things. I just didn't expect it so soon, or didn't really think about it. Well, we're there. The first issue we faced was hearing "God" in vain, ALL. THE. TIME! From kids and adults. We tried to help the kids understand why they might do that and to try and not overreact. They've done well with that. But Elizabeth has a group of friends that apparently were talking about inappropriate things and she said she had to walk away from the group to not be a part of it and when she came back and they were still going she tried to get them to talk about something else or just go play. I was so proud of her.

A few months ago we read a story out of the Friend magazine that talked about a girl who kids were really mean to and how someone went off their own to make her feel like she had a friend. Liz came home from school and said there was a girl like that who came up to their group and asked them if she could play with them and no one said anything, so she just walked off. Elizabeth followed after her and played with her. Those "friends" ended up being kind of mean to Elizabeth because she left them for her but she felt good about what she did. I was so happy for a few reasons, 1- because she isn't one of the mean kids, 2- she learned from something we had talked about, 3- she knew what was the right thing to do and although not easy, did it anyway, 4- she told me about it! Love this girl. I'm so proud of how she's growing up and the choices she's already making at this age!