The Bus!

School is in full swing!  I marvel at how well my son is doing! I am a little paranoid and feel like I need to protect him but he has come so far. He is succeeding in the classroom and thriving in school.  Always so happy to go.  We have had a few troubles that I would like to share.  After the first week of school, my son was crying everyday getting off the bus.  I was perplexed about the reasons for this.  I was having trouble getting him to calm down and tell me the problem.  Is turn out to be friends.  He wanted to have a friend over or go to a friends house everyday and the kids would plan whose house the would go to on the bus.  For a couple of week I tried to figure out how to help him.  Turned out to be a simple fix and I am much relieved.  We wrote a schedule for after school.  1. get of the bus, 2. RACE home, 3. Eat lunch, 4. make a choice, ie friends, or home work, movie, etc.  Turns out that Racing home is the best thing in our day.  We never have the fight or tears associated with whether a friend can play. This served as a huge reminder to me how much my little guy needs friends in his life.  I pray daily that he can make and keep some great friends that will love him for is differences and help him progress through the challenges.  Thus far it has been hard.  Some of the neighbor kids have told him that he is stupid and oh how my heart hurt trying to love him and buoy him up.  He is so tender hearted.  I also pray that I have the wisdom of how to help him through the meanness of others.  What a challenge, it is so hard to be a mom.