No Reverence

Last Sunday, at church, I was coming into Primary, as the junior primary was leaving, and was stopped by Sarah Sunday school teacher. She just said that Sarah isn't being good today. I had assumed she wouldn't. She's been nuts the last few days. But I thought she'd just be Sarah, but not CRAZY.

I stopped Sarah as she came out and gave her a lecture about being reverent and told her she needed to sit still and not talk to her friends. I told her she also needed to say sorry to her teacher. Well, after church I got in the car, and told Allan that she wasn't good in church either, and Allan took her candy away that the librarian had given the kids. She whaled and cried and screamed, but he was right. She doesn't get candy when she was bad. Since then, she is still being really really active and not really listening or paying attention, and it's driving me crazy.

I know she's a good girl, I just need her little 4 year old girl brain, to stop long enough to listen to what I'm telling her. She's a smart girl. She knows better.

In the car, I asked her what she was doing that made her teacher mad. She said, "I was playing with Brigham and not listening." Allan said maybe she's not allowed to sit next to him, separate them, to make it easier on her and the teacher. But does that work? Will she just disrupt other kids?

I'm sure I'm stressing for no reason, I'm just embarrassed that she was acting so badly that her teacher had to stop me and tell me, and I'm frustrated that she just doesn't get it. I don't want to be mad at her all of the time. And I don't want to feel like I'm just screaming and being a tyrant, but I am.

I just hope she grows out of it soon, because it's getting exhausting and I'm running out of ideas.