It's been a LONG time.. but, I'm back..... Don’t Make Excuses! Take Responsibility! My son is always on a mission in school to attain the behavior grade daily. Each day they are graded on their behavior using a color coded system. Pink is the highest, Purple 2 nd highest and the list goes on until Red.  The Joy of the 1 st Grade! This week he came home from school and he was not his normal cheerful self. I asked him what was wrong? I wanted to get on Pink! I said, what color did you get? “Green!” he pouted. I told him green was good.  But he proceeded with I wanted Pink! So I asked what happened in school today that you attained green instead of pink? He started to share a few things about the color where he started, then he was lowered to yellow, for not listening, then he clipped back up to green again. Then he started to talk about Timmy and Jimmy, and Joey (not the real names) and how Timmy didn’t want him to get on Pink so he said this and that, and it...