Today was the last day of school for Adam. He is now finished with Pre-School and will be heading off to Kindergarten next year. We had met with the school to discuss Adam's teacher for next year based on Adam's needs. Having Autism and his developmental delays I had my concerns. After the meeting I took Adam and Abigail to Wal-Mart. When we were at Wal-Mart one of the teachers that I was not too impressed with noticed Adam and came over to him and Adam walked up to her and said, " "Hi, Mrs. (Name removed to avoid further embarrassment). Know what?" to which she replied, "No, sweetheart, what?" Then he said it, "My daddy and mommy don't like you. They think your mean! But, I like you ok." To which she smiled and politely turned around and walked off.
It is not that I think that this particular person is mean per se it is that as a parent it is my responsibility to make sure that my kids are ok, at home, around their friends and at school. I am not going to leave that to the school to be responsible alone for my child's education and well being. Now, I had no idea Adam was going to say what he did to the teacher but I want him to always speak truth even if it embarrasses me or hurts. I think we could all do better if we taught our kids to be truthful instead of trying to pass the buck.
When we got home I talked with Adam about having tact and when is the appropriate time to say something and when it is not. It wasn't even five minutes later Adam comes running in the room and had one of my Tacks from the bulletin board and said, "Daddy I found it, I found Tact, I really did, I really did" Looks like I have my work cut out for me.....
