Bullying

For some reason, Jackson has a few girls in his class that have a hard time with him. They like to torment him. He is fun to tease but I think it's moved into bullying now. On several occasions he has come home telling me that, "Ana doesn't like me. She calls me a nimskull and a slow poke." He has quite a bit of rage in return and told me he's "just going to tackle her!" I asked him if he was mean to her and he said, "yes, but only because she deserves it cause she's mean to me."

While driving to wrestling I took the "What would Jesus do" approach and he started in on a full proper prayer. He asked to "please help Ana not call me a nimskull (I know the correct spelling is "numskull" but that's how he said it) and be mean to me." He was very sincere and hopeful.

Well, the next day didn't go too hot. He told me how he drew a picture of Mt. Charleston with Ana falling down the mountain and getting hurt. She in return crossed herself out of the picture and put Jackson there.

That evening Jackson came home without his backpack. I asked him where it was and he was dumbfounded. He figured he forgot it. On the same day, his lunch box was missing from his class bucket so he had to eat school lunch. I was in Jackson's classroom the next day at school and the consensus was that someone was taking things that didn't belong to them and hiding them. Someone had spotted a Transformers backpack by the garbage and Jackson's lunch showed up in the kindergarten bucket. A sweet little friend in Jackson's class did some investigating and found out who the culprit was. Turned out to be Ana. The teacher was informed and must have had a talk with her because Jackson hasn't complained since. I guess his prayers really were answered.