Le Troisième Petit Cochon

Today my husband and I went to the kids' school to see my daughter perform in her Third Grade French play. They presented Les Trois Petits Cochons, the story of the three little pigs and the big bad wolf all in French. She was le troisième petit cochon, the little pig who builds the brick house, except her version was also a rockin' singer.

Sometimes I am so amazed by what my kids can do. Even after five years of high school and college French, my diction wasn't nearly as good as a class full of eight and nine-year-olds.

Today was an excellent example of two of the many things I love about Southfield School. One is the amount of performing each kid gets to do. For a school that isn't a performing arts magnet, they do an amazing job of including every child in a wonderful variety of programs, plays and presentations.

The other thing I love is the opportunity the kids get to pursue enrichment activities like French, art, computer, and music. My kids can converse in French. It's how they talk to each other when they don't want me to understand!

I think both of my kids have a deep sense of confidence and self-worth because of both of those opportunities. They have no problem speaking with adults or in front of groups and they have plenty of interesting things to talk about. I know this will serve them well as we interview at other schools when we move.

And I am so tremendously thankful. I feel like my children have a solid brick foundation that no big, bad wolf could ever blow down. No matter how hard he huffed and puffed.