Today at school Robyn had a big test and she passed with flying colors. In class they have been reading one of the Mr. Putter and Tabby books. The one they are been reading is about how Mr. Putter was lonely and decided to get a cat so he could tell his stories to someone. And so he could eat English Muffins and Drink English Tea in the afternoon with someone too. So... this week they finished the book, and to help go over part of what they learned they had English Muffins and Tea for their afternoon snack. Robyn told me that she said she didn't want to have any and the teacher said "Robyn, you should really try it, it is really good!" and Robyn still said "No, I don't want to try it." So then the teacher asked anyone who was not going to have any to stand up so she could count. Robyn was one of three girls in her class that stood and said they wouldn't have any, out of 27 students. This may not seem that big of a deal, but it really was. When she told me about it she started to cry and said "It's too hard being the oldest." I asked her what she meant and she told me that it was hard being good so that her sisters would be good too. She didn't like that the teacher made her stand up infront of the whole class to say she wasn't going to try the tea. She was embarrassed by it. BUT She still stood by what she knew was right and said NO to what she knew she shouldn't partake in.
THANK YOU ROBYN for showing us all how to be strong and brave. No matter if we think it is embarrassing, or if everyone else is doing it, we need to be strong. Even when someone who we think is there to help us, like her teacher, is trying to get us to do something that we know deep down we shouldn't be doing, we need to stand strong and do what we know is the right thing to do.
Let this, Robyn's little example, help us remember what we truly believe, so that we can all pass our tests too.
