What do you think are some of the main challenges that are facing our kids in their schools today?

Yeah, I think going to school, especially for the first time for these younger kids, it's a completely new environment.

Whether it's a public school or a private school, you know, they're meeting all kinds of new people.

They're learning, you know, the structure of the day and the rules of the classroom and how to behave and how to interact with their age group differently.

And sometimes they will come across kids who maybe aren't that lovable.

Maybe they aren't that kind.

And maybe they even run across a bully, you know, bullying and in schools is a big issue that whether that's even in school or online, right.

How do you think, as moms, we can begin to really instill that mindset in our children of that, looking at others in a world that teaches them to really look only at themselves?

Now, what do you hope to-- what do you want kids to walk away with with this book?

So I, I'm a middle school English teacher at a school for kids at risk.

And so it's a boarding home for kids, a children's home.

And so every day when I walk in the classroom and I show up for school, I see the impact that how kids treat each other, um, has on each other.

And I see kids who have experienced a lot of trauma and, you know, sometimes as a result of trauma, their behaviors aren't the most civil, and they may not have the most, um, be the easiest kids to love, and yet I know, I know without a shadow of a doubt that God created each one of them, that they're made in His image, that they're deserving of love and kindness.

And so for me as a teacher, I, I want to show them that grace and love and kindness, um, that, that Jesus would.

And so, um, my hope for these kids, you know, I really wanna support families who are putting their kids in school, and sometimes that's a scary thing to do as a parent.

Okay.