Guest Entry - Meg

My daughter Meg is 6 years old and in Kindergarten.  When Meg comes home from school and is asked how school went – she immediately turns into Napoleon Dynamite.  “Only the worst day of my life – what do you think”.  Yesterday, my best friend Heather saw Meg and asked “How was school today?”.  In which Meg replied, “AWFUL……………..I got detention”.  Now mind you, Meg did not get detention.  In fact it is quite the antithesis, Meg behaves like a saint in school and I wish she was half as obedient at home as she is in the classroom.  At home, she is quite obnoxious and bosses everyone around because it is Meg’s world and we are just visiting.  However in school, she sits criss-cross apple sauce and lights up a room singing songs with the class.  At home, she screams from the family room asking where her chicken noodle soup (with the curly noodles) is and wonders aloud why it is also taking so long for her glass of orange juice.  At school, Meg sits quietly in the lunch room eating chicken nuggets and smiles politely as other kids talk and laugh around her.  When Meg gets home from school she throws her backpack on the floor and kicks one tennis shoe off in the kitchen and the other next to the couch.  At school, Meg quietly hangs her back pack up on her hook and puts her boots, hat, and gloves in her cubby.  It is truly amazing the transition of behavior from home to school, not to mention when she visits other peoples homes and they confirm she was just a delight!  This behavior is not new in children.  I have heard this for years from other parents, that their children are perfect and well behaved when away from home.  But the minute they bring the child back home LOOK OUT!  In conclusion, I just hope that someday Meg will share the “good child” behavior with me someday so that I too can experience what she only saves for the public.

- Kristen