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[kokopellinelli]

My boss had her baby today. :) She went in for her c section at 8:30 and by 10 her baby girl was out and named. Yay! I can't wait till she brings her into the office (presumably sometime next week)...it's been a while since I held a tiny baby.

We also had 5th & 6th grade Kids Club today. I've been pretty nervous about it...it's the first one I've done without the boss there to keep the kids in line. Luckily, only 6 kids showed up. Bran(a coworker) was there, and Audra(a sometimes-coworker) showed up, so there were three of us and things went well. One girl showed up who hasn't come to the sessions for several months. She's a...bit of a handful. Last time she was there, she didn't get her gold star (for good behavior) and wound up sulking. She was okay today, but next time I'm going to try to be harder on her, and try and get her to focus.

This is why I like Kindergarteners - they want to please you. They don't want to piss you off.

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[keelykins.livejournal.com]

Do you hand out gold stars or does the teacher? Just wondering.

Yeah baby! We saw Amanda and David on Wednesday. I want to a baby! You should have seen Justin with Jonathan, and omg I seriously have decided I am ready! LOL

[kokopellinelli]

I'm usually the one who actually gives out the gold stars, however the boss is better about the whole "you get one warning, then you don't get your star" thing, so last time she gave the girl several warnings and it didn't help. I think she's the only person who has missed getting a gold star at one of the sessions.

[keelykins.livejournal.com]

Can I ask what she is doing? Like what are her behaviors? Does a teacher come or only students? Have you spoken to the teacher? Does this girl have any problems?

(Not that I am using this as an example for what I would do if it was my classroom! LOL)

[kokopellinelli]

Heh. I see what you're doing.

She just has major attitude. She's in 6th grade and kind of has that "I NEED ATTENTION" vibe. She tries to make the other kids laugh by being loud and silly, and when I tell her, for example, that she needs to settle down and do what she's there to do, she says no, or she'll settle down for a bit but then go back to being obnoxious. She's also a bit of a bully, she interrupts, she touches things that aren't hers, takes people's things (she was trying on Sammy's shoes and refused to give them back until I intervened), etc.

No teacher comes to Kids Club, and it's not a mandatory thing. None of those kids have to be there for credits for anything. It's only one afternoon a month. We've told them that if they don't want to be there, to read scripts, they don't have to come and we won't think less of them. We're not affiliated with the school in any way.

I do have the authority to kick a kid out - say "That's it, you're out of here. Don't come back until you're ready to take this seriously." but that could turn out to be a mood dampener for the rest of the kids, and really I don't want to have to do something like that. She wasn't really THAT bad yesterday, I guess, so I gave her a gold star. The thing that makes me think she's doing it for attention is that she said, "I get a star? But I was naughty." I said, "You're right. Do you think you don't deserve a star?" And she sort of dithered and went to put the star on her chart.

*shrug* I guess I should be harder on her, but I really am not good at that sort of thing. :) Love you, pookie.

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

If kindergarteners want to please me, they can do so by climbing into this stew pot going away! ;-)

[kokopellinelli]

You know, you're not nearly as crotchety as you want people to believe. I'll bet kids love you.