Mean Girls and Grace

The quality I want most to see my daughter(s) emulate, is grace. And I got a glimpse of it today. Unfortunately there is just way too much "mean girl" drama and nonsense. She said, she said...I am never quite sure who is in or who is out. I wish everyone was in and kindness prevailed.

It seems like recess and the playground are ripe grounds for ungrace to surface. Picking teams, exclusion, running to be first on the two available swings and not getting off forever, or not sharing are the repetitive stories du jour.

Well, today there was a variation on the fair team approach. It seems that a game of dodge ball happened with teams that weren't fair at all, and I am happy to say my daughter's approach was to purposefully get outs so the other team could participate on more level ground. Of course there were those who weren't happy and came in only to kick and not play in the field and wailed at the "stupidity" of purposeful outs.

I for one didn't think it was stupid at all. Rather it was the right choice. A moment of grace.