Girls aren't the only ones!

For those who say that girls are emotional...I beg to differ!
Come take a step into my classroom , well at least the past month or so. All of my kids, especially my boys have been incredibly emotional. I don't know why. Maybe we're all ready for some warmer weather and to get outside a bit. (I know I am!) And yet sometimes in the midst of my frustrations and I want to grab the little kiddos by the shoulders and yell, instead I just look over to my aides and just start to laugh (which I'll admit doesn't help the situation of a child who is kicking and screaming... but what else can you do)

• One little boy refused to do anything one day. His way of rebelling was to cover his eyes while saying the pledge.
  
• Another boy is always pretending he is asleep (he thinks this is a smart little trick to get out of doing stuff) He'll lay his head on his desk and close his eyes. Then just to make it a little more 'believable' he pretends to snore every now and then.
• Yet another little one.....again a boy.... I swear has a melt down after melt down after melt down. It doesn't matter who he's working with, what we're doing (even if it's a fun art project) or what time of the day it is. It's getting very old and not very funny (can you tell I'm losing my patience?)
• At lunch the other day I had my 3rd grade boy come running into my room crying because someone in the lunchroom looked at him wrong. Really? I can see a few of my girls doing this, but a boy?
• Then another one's mom forgot to pack something for lunch. Once again the tears.

I really could go on and share a few more examples, but I think you get the picture. I've never seen so many tears in such a short amount of time and all from the boys in my classroom. I don't quite know what to say or do about it. I've gone through a lot of tissue and tried to clam the issues at hand. It seems like this is an endless job.