My 5 year old's kindergarten teacher uses a color coded card system to determine whether students follow the rules or end up getting in trouble. A student who stays on green the entire day followed all of the rules and didn't get in to trouble. Yellow is a warning, followed by other colors if students go beyond a warning. My daughter takes after me and is goody-two-shoes and usually follows all of the rules. I say that in a positive way.
There have been 4 or 5 times this school year where she's come home with a yellow. I can always tell when she gets a yellow for the day because she gets off the bus and comes into the house with a very shy attitude. She doesn't want to say much and is hesitant to let me see her school folder. The school folder contains a sheet from the teacher tracking a student's daily progress that parents have to initial each night.
The few times she's been shy when coming home I ask her how her day went and she usually spills it right away that she had a yellow. My wife and I aren't upset by her and we usually have a talk that getting a yellow is not bad. It just means that you need to remember to listen to the teacher. We remind her that all students get yellow from time to time. Although I want her to receive a green each day, it's a good learning experience for her to receive a yellow now and then. Getting a yellow is an easy way for her to learn about "failure". I hesitate to call a yellow a failure, since it really isn't, but it does allow her to react when something doesn't go as she planned.
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