The Treasure Box
It had been a long year for my 6 year old grandson Will. As a kindergartner, there are great expectations put on you to sit still, listen, pay attention, follow instructions and various other rules to be followed. To encourage the appropriate behavior the teacher allows the students to earn tickets for good behavior. When ten have been collected they get to make a trip to The Treasure Box. It is now February and there had not yet been a trip to The Treasure Box for little Will, because he is 100% boy, not bad, just a boy. Last week it happened to be picture day and the teacher told the students that they would have an extra opportunity for a ticket…if they could behave during the photo shoot. As Will describes it, he thought to himself, “I can earn a ticket for that short amount of time.” And then as he began to count in his mind that since he already had 8 tickets and if he earned the special one offered then he would only need one more to order to earn the right to the long ...