I absolutely love going to church as a family and today was just a usual Sunday in my life. I woke up and worked on going over my lesson to my church class. I teach the 4 year old class. I absolutely love these little children!!!
Today we talked about being baptized like Jesus. Oh yes, their attention span is not very long. The first question EACH and every week is, "Did you bring treats for us?". Today I gave out Quaker Chocolate Chip granola bars. Hmmm... not a hit with one of the little boys. He decided to not eat. They were very chatty and finally after going through the 45 minute lesson, I asked them if I could take a photo of them.
Immediately, they wanted to see themselves on my phone. A "debate' went like this-
Child 1: I am the tallest one in the photo. You are the smallest!
Child 2: I am not the smallest. You are wrong-
Child 3: Look we are the same.
Child 4: silent because they could really care less
I told them if they were listening the entire time that I would let them draw on the chalkboard for the last five minutes of class. This was working great. However, I had only brought 1- yes, ONE piece of chalk to class. This meant...SHARING!!!
Oh, SHARING at the age of four!
I sat back and watched and tried to get the children to share.
This is what I saw next:
Oh, sharing is not always EASY!
Not only was this little boy NOT happy but he started YELLING at the boy drawing. I talked to him and asked him why he was having such a hard day.
He said- Okay... I thought this was so cute....
"My brother woke me up at 6am to play PLAYSTATION with him and I'm now I'm having a hard time because I'm tired and grumpy."
I love Sundays!!!!!!