Today was very nice day of school.  Things were accomplished, learning was done, attitudes were spectacular!  I hope today was not a fluke. 

I began today with pulling out the portable dry erase marker board.  I told Cameron that we would be coming up with some school rules for us to follow.  If we broke the rules, there would be a consequence.

He agreed with me that not following the rules would be disobedience.  He came up with what he thought was a just consequence.  Then I told him there would be a "grace."

Grace is NOT getting what we deserve.  Basically the grace was a warning.  I think that some of the time he doesn't even realize his behavior, or subtitle attitudes that can quickly escalate. Hence the warning.

So, we discussed different rules and wrote down some of his ideas.  Then I tweaked them to come up with our list.

Here are our school rules:

1. Do your best. (one of his)
2. No interrupting (another of his)
3. No --
   1. complaining
   2. whining
   3. moaning
   4. or grumpiness
4. Expected behavior --
   1. cheerfulness
   2. pleasantness
   3. cooperation
5. Be ye kind on to another (his)
6. Glorify God with my life!! (the most important of all)

It was helpful to have this list before us and sitting with us during school today. I was able to refer to it. 

"Wow, Cameron.  You were being pleasant even though you missed that word.  Way to and not be grumpy!"

"Be careful.  You are starting to complain.  Don't break rule number 3."

He referred to it as well.

"Mama.  I really did number 1.  I did my very best and I got 5 lines done in under 20 minutes!" (I was so proud of him for that one that it actually made me tear up a bit.)

So, I'm praying that today was not a fluke.  I am going to make our rules into a poster to hang on our wall so that they can be a reminder to us both.