N.E.D

The children attended a show on Tuesday called NED. Remember back in the day when the Coca Cola yo-yo people used to come and demonstrate their skills??? This is it but adapted to highlight some values.
N = never give up.
E = encourage others.
D = do your best.
It was a great show I enjoyed it and the children did too.

Yesterday we were doing a reflection lesson about the show. I asked the children to think about how they had shown the NED principles for the week just gone.

The answers were very sweet. e.g.'s

N -
I had to learn a very hard song for choir and I never gave up and kept trying.
I have been trying to learn knitting, I tried hard to learn it so my nonna would be proud of me.
E -
I encouraged my little sister to keep trying to learn to ride her new scooter.
I encouraged a friend who was sad to be happy.
D -
I did my best in my homework (I have to add, this is the first time this child has EVER handed in homework... in his whole school career so he tells me!).
I did my best at Jazz ballet dancing.

Oh but this is the best.
E - I encouraged my mum to cook my dinner so I wouldn't be hungry.

I had a good chuckle when I read that one. Ahhh the simplicity of it I can relate.
I'm a single parent of five boys. I work full time. I drive quite a distance to get to and from work every day and I try and leave at the end of each day so I have no work to do when I get home... and when I walk in the door each day after work what do I hear??? 'mum, what's for dinner?' .... oh bugger! Yea sometimes it has been deflating and I get a little cross. Can I get in the door first??? If I don't laugh I'll cry. I don't think I have ever looked at what my children do in this context as encouragement. Perhaps they do :)

Funny moment of the day.
We have a school assembly each day. One of my students has Asperger's and often sits on the edge of the line keeping himself busy playing with objects he can find. I don't mind as long as he's not disturbing other students and he still makes himself a part of the school group i.e. he's not isolating himself. However yesterday he was scraping a piece of bark up and down the side of a bin and the noise was irritating me... so... standing with my feet together I asked him in a firm voice to find a comfy spot with the rest of the class and to sit and listen to the assembly like everyone else was doing.
I can just see his little cogs working now. He had a cheeky little smirk on his face...
Comfy spot you say....
So he sat on my feet!
I was frozen in place I was trying oh so hard not to burst out with laughter.... it was lucky he had his back to me or he'd have seen it!!!