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Social maturity 101 Watching your daughter leave right before your eyes I CAN'T SLEEP! A tree and its fruit Wishing for some culture in my family Back on the parenting soapbox! How far will the government go in telling us how to teach/raise our children? Defensive Driving Lost socks and lost friendships....one in the same? A constant song in my head............... March 07 April 07 May 07 June 07 July 07 August 07 September 07 October 07 November 07 December 07 January 08 February 08 March 08 April 08 May 08 June 08 July 08 
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A tree and its fruit
I received a phone call yesterday from our daughters teacher letting us know that she was proud of her for standing up for a friend when no one else would. U.G.E.S.D.S: Upper grade elementary school drama syndrome is what I have named it. (everything else has a syndrome, so why not make a new one up?) As I was reading my bible study today, I came across a verse in Matthew 12:33 "Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for a tree is known by its fruit." (The Inspirational Study Bible-Max Lucado New Kings James Version) Isn't it true that we are producing fruit when we raise our children, and what a joy to know that people are seeing the sweetness of this "fruit"? I am not saying that our fruit has not tasted sour at times. As the saying goes: The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, and we all have our "sour apple" days. So, regaradless of bad days, if we as parents teach our children the difference between good fruit and bad fruit..............can we possibly have a nice fruit salad at the end of the day? 1 comments from 1 users
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sunnica
on Apr 27, 2008 at 08:56 PM
Wow! Sounds as if your little fruit did something to be proud of. Isn't it nice that the teacher took the time to contact you? It reminds me of the Centennial letter someone was kind enough to bring to my attention (about the baseball players at the funeral). It's more often that we hear when kids are doing wrong, so when someone does something right... perhaps it should remind us that there are some kids who are working hard to be good examples. Thank you for sharing this!
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