I have spent almost two years telling Scout hero stories. Times where someone made a good decision which in turn made that person a hero. They range from tiny things like including someone that looks left out, all the way to big things like not stealing from a store. Each morning he tries to guess who the hero is, and it’s our little game we play on the way to school. As he leaves, I always tell him goodbye, and “go and be a hero today”.
Quite often, he comes home with something that he did that day that made him a hero. But lately, he has come home every day and told me something. It literally makes my day, knowing that he seeks out to try and be a hero.
Yesterday, he came home and told me that there was a little girl who was “counting” on a boy on a swing. When she got to twenty, he was supposed to get off but he didn’t. So she counted again, and he did the same thing. So then Scout “saw them and just said to her that she could just have my swing instead”. I was so proud of him, and I know that when he told me the story, he felt pretty proud too.
Then today, Scout came home and told me that there was a new boy in class who didn’t know anyone. So he told him at recess to come and play with him.
I absolutely adore my little hero, and am so proud of him when he tries to go beyond a little boy’s comfort zone to be kind to others.
Hopefully one day I will be just like him.
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