First few days of school

I was waiting for the boys to come flying through the door the first day of school to tell me how much fun they had, what friends were in their class and what they did all day.  YEA RIGHT!  My boys?  They take after their dad and are men of few words.  All I got was, boring and a shoulder shrug.  Later Jonah did tell me that he made a new friend, Quincy and he was SO excited! 

Jonah came home Tuesday telling me how much fun he had playing minecraft on the playground with all of his buddies.  Luke still had a big bag of nothing!

Here it is... the third day of school and Jonah comes home in tears.  My heart immediately broke before he could say a word.  My little tough guy was so upset he did not even want to talk about it.  Finally, he uttered the words, "I lost a best friend and that has never happened before".  I asked  him what happened and he told me that his new BFF kicked, punched and called him a wimp in the bus line.  If you know Jonah, you know good and well he is not a wimp!  I asked him why he lost him as a friend and he told me that he does not want a friend who treats him like that.  (confetti flying, mommy whooping in her head and jumping for joy)

He told me that Quincy cut in front of him in the bus line and Jonah asked him to get behind him or get in the back of the line.  Quincy then punched and kicked him and continued to do so and then called him a wimp.

I know, I know... Jonah is NO angel.  I asked him what he did after all of this happened and he said that he punched him back in the arm since he would not stop after he kept asking him to.  We have taught our boys that they should always use their words and if that does not work then get an adult.  We also tell them they better defend themselves too.  Jonah said there was a teacher but no one saw and when I asked him why he did not go get a teacher he told me he did not  want to loose his spot in line.  

I of course used this as a life lesson and asked Jonah how it made him feel after being treated like that.  Now hopefully he will not treat anyone like that since he knows how it feels.