Quote Originally Posted by Veronica View Post
5th - 10 and 11 year olds. I've been teaching for 15 years.

It's an age when they can mostly begin to comprehend that life is not fair. You do have those exceptional children who don't understand that. They can understand what hurt feelings mean and most aren't deliberately cruel (although a few are.)

It's when they can start to understand that life is what you make it and that their choices DO matter. They cannot control everything that happens to them, who can? But they can choose to make the best of it, or not.
My oldest son is in the fifth grade this schoolyear, V. He's already grown up SO much, and we're not even halfway through it!

~BikeMomma