on my way home today, my daughter was telling me stories about her classmates in her third grade class, as she normally does. She would sometimes be talking about a girl who is so kind that she considers that classmate as her new bestfriend; Or about a boy who is so noisy in class that his name is always listed in the noisy list written on the blackboard. Today was another story which, tugged me a bit. She spoke about this boy named Enrique.
daughter: "you know mommy, Enrique is a special boy."
mom: "why is that?"
daughter: "well, he uses his sister's schoolbag, even if it is for girls. they don't have much money to buy a new schoolbag, and instead they used their money to pay for tuition fee."
i was touched by my daughter's story. i'm glad she has such a classmate, and i'm glad that this will make her value what she has instead of looking for what she doesn't have.
