So, my third grade son, Malakai, came home from school with homework that his entire class had to do: “Write a letter to your teacher and explain how you will talk less.”

He was confused and didn’t know what he was suppose to write about. I thought I’d give him a clue.

“Obviously your teacher thinks that your entire class talks too much. You all need to explain to her that you are sorry and give her examples of how you will be more respectful and talk less in class.”

He was clearly frustrated by my response and ran upstairs yelling, “I got it, I know what I’m going to write!”

I checked on him a little while later and found he was finishing up his letter.

“Dear Ms. [teacher],

Our class can talk less by using contractions when we talk. We could say more simple sentences. We can just say the connection and not the detials [sic] or story.”

Looks like I need to be the one to do a little less talking.