Confidence

The other day Merete and I were chatting about how great it would be to have a class filled with all my favorite students. A few minutes after we talked, she said: "That would be hard for me. All my teachers would want me in their class. How would I choose?"

Merete also told us this week that she is the "class president," meaning she was voted to be the class representative for student council. She's quite pleased. I was a bit surprised because when we've talked about it before she said she didn't want to do something like that. When I asked her what changed, she told me she was feeling like she was "now ready to take on this responsibility."

And, Finn reports that he is at "the best table" in his class. He brought home this "detailed picture"; he talks a lot about these. I asked him for a description of it just to be sure, and I was right that it is aliens. The person in the lower right hand corner is not an alien, but rather a sleeping human. Why sleeping? "I don't know, that's just what people do." He also did say that it was one of the best pictures in the class.

Where did these kids get such confidence? And how can I borrow some of it?