The Kindness Quiz

Cooper and Phoebe do not always get along. They spend so much time playing together, but they have developed ways of pushing each other's buttons. This happened a few weeks ago. Cooper made up a quiz about Phoebe that was not very flattering, which led to tears from her. After he saw what happened, rather than arguing that she was being over-sensitive (as he usually does), he was troubled. While I comforted Phoebe, Cooper disappeared.

A few minutes later, he came back with this:

It says:

The Phoebe Quizze

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10! = amazing, beautiful, smart, creative, fast learning, world changing, weird in a good day, best sister ever!!!

Then there's a hidden message to solve. It was a clue to go find a sweet treat.

Phoebe recovered quickly when she saw the new quiz. They jumped back to playing and all was forgiven.

I was impressed with Cooper. He recognized that he'd been unkind and then done something to fix it. One of the things that I've been trying to teach my kids is to own their choices, good and bad, and not cover them up, to be honest in all they do. This is a hard thing to do, even for grownups. But they keep improving, and that's the goal.