Moral Minute

L and I had one or two of these last night, chatting about friendship, kindness and what kind of people you'd like to call friends and be friends with, since we are having a wee-bit of an issue with a certain Ms. Bossy (and Manipulative) in class right now. This Little Ms. Bossy has made it her agenda to rage against my little buddy-helper Lillie-Bean and exclude her from play time if L keeps playing with kids that Ms. Bossy doesn't like her to play with.

Well listen up Little Ms. Bossy, we are fighting back ... BIG TIME!
We won't let some little Ms. Bossy boss us around! NO WAY! Go and GET LOST!!!

Pat and I have been talking to L every night about her school DRAMA and tried to advise her on how to handle the situation. We even have gone as far as asking 1-800 GP for help ... since he has a Masters in Little People Behavior and all.

Well last night, L and I chatted about Bullies and being Unselfish. I have a great little helper on hand my "Mom's Moral Minute" booklets by Cynthia Beck, who have been MOST helpful!
The book gives you a very short story about the issue/topic, gives solutions and advice and then asks questions about the topic.

* When has someone been unselfish to you?
* How can you be unselfish in your family?
* In what ways do you like to share?

It took L a little while to come up with answers, I hinted about mama and papa always making food for her first and letting her choose the movie at movie night ...

Fast forward 9 hours and Pat and I woke up to the soothing sound of "Princess" on TV, Lulu all snuggled up in front of it, dishes banging, drawers shutting and the fridge being opened and shut and opened and shut ...

Lillie-Bean had taken this Moral Minute quite to her little OH-SO-LOVING heart!
She let Lulu choose a morning show (that NEVER happens without a fight, NEVER!!!) and then started working on making breakfast for the whole family.
Everybody had Fruit Cheerios (they had been soaking for a while ... they were very soggalicious;), a Danino yogurt and a glass of OJ.

WOW ... thats all I can say about Moral Minutes, just WOW!!! Totally, awesomely cool!

For one thing I was thrilled that L had actually listened to what we had talked about and I am hoping she will take the parts to heart that were directed towards little Ms. Bossy, and of course I was stoked that she decided that she could contribute and make breakfast for the whole family. So cool!!!!

Needless to say, we'll be having a Moral Minute more often now .... matter of fact, it's time for Pat's session right now ... topic of the day "husbandship and dirty socks" ... gotta go  ;)