Two empowering questions that help children thrive spiritually and can help you too

Playground duty. In the space of that 20 minutes of playtime, as a teacher, you become a cheerleader, judge, executioner (of privileges!), nurse, negotiator and instructor. My least favourite of these roles is the judge. Kids run up to you with their grievances and tell tales on their friends. You never know the full story, and yet, you are supposed to intervene and make a judgement of fault. An impossible task.

Last term, I made a spur of the moment decision whilst on playground duty. It came out of my mouth because it so often comes out of my mouth at home in parenting. It is a phrase I use so often with my four kids that in the moment, on the frosty Wednesday morning, it was on the tip of my tongue before I could stop it!