This puppet's been sitting our supply closet forever. Ugly orange thing someone donated years ago. Always thought puppets were dumb. Last month I'm totally bombing this honesty lesson. Kids picking noses staring ceiling. One fell asleep. Grabbed that stupid orange puppet out of desperation. Made up

Found myself refereeing a heated argument between two eight-year-olds about the "right" way to build a human pyramid yesterday. Apparently Tyler thought Emma was doing it wrong. Emma thought Tyler was being bossy. Neither of them wanted to compromise. So much for building teamwork through fun games. But

So I'm sitting in this planning meeting and someone goes "We should do game night for families!" Everyone's nodding like this is brilliant idea and I'm thinking oh great another event I gotta plan that nobody will come to. But then Sarah

Mark starts helping with our 5th graders last month. Really nice guy wants help. First Sunday hand him this packet. Like fifteen pages. Volunteer handbook safety policies behavior management curriculum overview emergency procedures. Everything. Next week shows up looking like I hit him with truck. Admits didn't read

Had this lesson last month I thought was gonna be amazing. Spent forever planning it. Good story clear points everything organized perfect. Kids just sat there staring at me like I was speaking gibberish. Couple started picking at their shoes. One kid straight up asked if we were done yet.

Need kids be quiet sometimes. After games before parents pick up. When someone's having meltdown needs space. Rainy days stuck inside. Problem is telling kids "sit quietly" doesn't work. They don't know what do with themselves. Start poking each other making noise

So it's July and I'm already stressing about back-to-school stuff. Kids disappear for three months then suddenly they're all taller and forgot everyone's names and act like they've never been in our building before. Last year was disaster. Thought I&

Cleaning out my phone yesterday and found this text from Jennifer. She used to help with 2nd 3rd graders couple years back. "Hey I don't think I can keep doing this anymore. Just not working out." That was it. Gone. Back then I'm like

So last week during worship time little Emma asks me why we have to sing the same songs every week. And honestly? I didn't have a great answer. That got me thinking. We talk about worship all the time but do kids actually get what it means? Like