Sydney had a sad day on Saturday. As usual, we were doing our Saturday morning chores. One of her jobs is to take everyone's shoes out of the hall lockers and put them away in their respective closets. She said she had already done this job, but when we went to get Ethan's shoes from his closet, we couldn't find them anywhere. We were trying to get to Logan's baseball game on time, and I was getting quite frustrated that the shoes were not where they were supposed to be! I opened the hall closet one more time to check and saw some shoes poking out from under all of the jackets. Sure enough--she had shoved a pile of shoes in the back of the closet--behind the jackets.
"Syd! Why did you do that? You know you're supposed to put them away." I probably wasn't as kind and patient as I should have been.
Poor Syd ran to her room crying and I wondered why she was so upset. From getting "found out"? From getting chewed out?
Mikelle was kind enough to go up to Syd's room and console her. When she asked Sydney why she was so sad, the whole story spilled out. She said it wasn't fair that she had to do all of the "dirty jobs" like emptying the trash and putting shoes away. Everyone knows that trash and shoes have tons of germs! Her first grade field trip is coming up and she didn't want all of those germs to make her sick and make her miss her field trip!
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