PART 2

     Last discussed, Sam was having difficulty with his friends. He had called them annoying and followers so I wanted to follow up on that and find out why. I asked him a few questions and included a small interview into that day's field notes.

     Notes: Nov. 11, Thursday

"He had a great day. Played with new friends (a 3 year old boy and 5 year old girl I was babysitting). Saw 'Big Hero Six' at the theatre. 

'Sam, what did you do today?'

'(Along with the events posted above) I got to be apart of this lovely conversation. Are you going to be sharing this?' 

'Yup. Now last we talked you called your friends annoying 'lil people, why?'

'I said that?? Well because my friends wont stop copying my life. When I do something they copy me.'

'Were they like that yesterday?'

'No. Just Dillon because I hate him.'

'Sam! One, please don't say you hate people, it's mean and two, why do you hate him?'

'Because he copies me and at tag he takes forever to chase us and instead plays like he's an airplane.'

'So you mean he's just like you when we play basketball and you wait 'til I'm irritated with you when you finally shoot the ball? Funny.'

'Yes. Quite humorous.'"

     He didn't much appreciate me calling him out on being a hypocrite but I've always been a strong believer of "practice what you preach," and "do to others what you would want done to you." Also, by now, hopefully you are aware of my family's dire need for sarcasm; it's our food, energy, life support. Some families revolve around money or television; my family revolves around sarcasm. Next, I will try getting Samuel to replace hypocrisy with sarcasm; that's definitely a healthy substitution.