She STILL Talks Too Much --- I Think...

Okay, so on Friday when I picked her up from the bus stop, she said, 'Mom, I had to pull a card AGAIN today!' I asked what happened and it was apparently talking and not listening (the same thing she had said yesterday). So when we get back home, I open up her B.E.A.R. (Bring Everything Always Ready) folder, that she brings home everyday and on the behavioral chart, there is a green smiley face, instead of a yellow unhappy face. I showed it to Nicole and she said, 'No, I really did have to pull a card and didn't earn it back at the end of the day.' She could've lied and said that she was wrong or whatever, but she stuck to the truth, which was that she got in trouble at school.

When I spoke with her teacher earlier in the week, she said that Nicole DOES like to talk (no surprise there), but that she is not disrespectful or anything and that she gets along great with 'her classmates' (which is part of her talking problem - lol). She said that it is common for the children to make it sound like their behavior is much worse than it really is, which she said was the case with Nicole. So, I'm thinking, 'Did she really pull a card or is she confusing it with yesterday?' or 'Did the teachers make a mistake?' Her punishment if she pulls a card (so far, it's only been from green to yellow) is to not watch Tom & Jerry at night before bed AND she loses all electronics privileges for the following weekend. I would hate to punish her if she really did NOT pull a card, so I told her that because she told me the truth, and that the TEACHERS made the mistake (which I questioned on her calendar and have it ready to send back to school with her) that she would NOT get punished this once. I told her that it's very important to tell the truth and that I would get it straightened out with the teachers, but that if she has to pull yet another card in the coming days, that she knows very well what her punishment is -- and she definitely does NOT want that. Hopefully, it won't be an issue anymore. She's just gotta close that yapper of hers!