A compliment goes a long way

I try to stay positive and upbeat but it's hard to be positive 100% of life.

Everyone likes to be complimented. From a pretty blouse to a good job, it's nice to know someone is looking a you and caring. It's nice to know that someone cares enough to make your day. It's just nice period.

So the next time you are seeing good in someone (even if you don't know them), compliment them.

You will never know how much that means to the other person. They may be having a horrific day and YOU made it better.

Compliments ROCK!!

Make someone's day!!

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He's a keeper of a brother indeed

My brother is one of my biggest supporters. He talks from the hip and is what one the most black & white people I know. His face says it all when he gives me his full attention.

He can talk me off a ledge and help me through things. He's can also drive me batty. ;) But hey he's a teenager and a boy. What can I expect?!

He may only be 17 but he has a huge heart. I {literally} look up to him and hope that I can have that poise and strength he has one day.

He's my brother and such a keeper!

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PLEASE goes a LONG way

Good morning! I need to get something off my chest.

My siblings and family have seemed to have missed the memo. What memo? The one where if they ask for something to be done that they put a PLEASE in front of it.

Sure, we do several things for each-other daily but if they are asking me to go out of my way to do a task, I expect a please in front of it. My friends do it so why is it so hard to get my family, my own flesh and blood to do it?

It's not like I am asking for much. Just a little respect and mannerisms. If my students can respect me and my friends can respect/ask me, then my family should too right?

It may be a long weekend but I am expecting a please in front of tasks.

I am not asking for the world; just a please!

R-E-S-P-E-C-T

It's no secret that I teach Sunday School and will become a teacher very soon. But the one pet peeve that REALLY sets me off is disrespect towards an adult. I could care less what the child did or whose at fault. I was raised to not talk back, be respectful towards adults, and to always use my manners.

Today I taught, tweens at my church, and the lesson included a craft activity to get the kids pumped about VBS which is this week. The girls were ALL into the craft activity but the boys, who are 4/5th graders, could have cared less. The other teacher and I gave them a choice to do the craft or not. BUT then they started horsing around and being really loud. SO they lost the choice and had to sit and do craft. This one child told me, after I pulled the play time, that he could do what ever he wanted and pulled out his computer.

Let me just say that I could care-LESS who the parent is or what influence they have on our church. You do not disrespect a teacher/adult and get away with it.

So I went over to the boy and told him to put his computer away. He started arguing with me and then I told him that I am not going to make a scene and he will follow directions. He complied but grumbled throughout the activity. As he was leaving, I told him that the computer would not come out during Sunday School again. He said "whatever," rolled his eyes, and said "I'm going to find a spot to plug in my computer." I chose to ignore his comments and stay positive.

Total disrespect from an 11 year old is not okay. Talking back, in my opinion, is not okay. This child has given the rest of the teachers trouble before with behavior/attitude and I simply will not stand for it. PERIOD. It may have been okay in the earlier years and seen as cute/smart but now he is going into sixth grade and has to stand by the rules like everyone else. PERIOD!