WEEK 3

EVERYTHING I DO COUNTS

Last week I caught a "just." It was mine. I said "I'm just in the chorus" about my show, and then I heard it. I'm in the show. That's the sentence.

Here's the next thing. Nobody writes down the stuff I do at home. Making Bowden laugh when he's crying. Finding Millie's shoe, which is always under the couch. Getting everybody to agree on a game when they want four different games.

Grown-ups have names for those things. My mom told me. Kindness. Memory. Organizing. Leading. They're skills. I already have them.

When I'm big, nobody gets to call these years "nothing." I won't let them.

HERE'S WHAT I'M SAYING OUT LOUD THIS WEEK:

"The things I do count, even when nobody's counting."

HERE'S WHAT I'M DOING THIS WEEK:

Telling someone one thing I did today that nobody noticed.

PRACTICE FIRST:

Say it to the mirror. Then tell your family, on tape. Then tell someone for real.

Mirror, then with the family on tape (a grown-up's phone, private album called Practice), then for real.

WRITE IT IN

One thing I did that nobody noticed

The grown-up word for it (ask your mom)

Who I told

My practice tape (date)

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