Doing the right thing

I am still trying to get the nerve to write a post about my failings as a parent. Just not there yet. But for everything I do wrong and for all the times my kid acts like a teenager, it is nice when Jordan does something that shows me I must be doing some things right.

As I have blogged about before, some of Jordan's classmates have been mean to her and have excluded her, which, I know, is pretty normal for kids. Fortunately, she is rarely fazed by this, mostly because she is oblivious. I, on the other hand, continue to let this get under my skin, mostly because my kid goes to a Catholic school, so one might expect the kids to be kind, Christian-like. You know what I am saying?

One of Jordan's best friends, whom I will call Kelly, happens to be loved by pretty much all the kids. Kelly is a pretty nice girl, fairly quiet when I sub, and, even better, has never been disrespectful to me, unlike far too many others. 

Yesterday when I picked Jordan up from school, I asked her whom she sat with at lunch, as I often do. She told me she sat with a girl I will call Lisa, someone Jordan is friendly with but does not consider a best friend. I asked Jordan who else she sat with, and she said only Lisa, which seemed odd. Jordan went on to explain to me that many kids wanted to sit near Kelly, including Jordan, as is the case pretty much daily. And in fact, once that group of kids, again, including Jordan, was sitting at Kelly's table, that left Lisa at another table by herself. So rather than leave Lisa all alone, my kid went to sit with her.

I told Jordan how proud of her I was, knowing how much she likes Kelly and wants to sit with her. Plus, Lisa has said a few mean things to Jordan, which my kid is obviously willing to overlook/forgive.

Knowing the kids at that school as well as I do, I am not sure too many if any would do what Jordan did. But my kid did the right thing. I will take that.