Kids at day care resolve to be good, help out more

CONWAY — From socially conscious statements to promises of good behavior, children at two Conway daycare centers shared their new year’s resolutions.

School-age children attending The Children’s Center were asked about their resolutions for 2016. They provided only their first names.

Rhea Ann, 12, was one of the more prolific children. She listed 20 resolutions, ranging from planting more trees to saving more energy, watching less television, learning to crochet, helping the community more and being a better cook.

“Be more responsible” was her 19th resolution, followed by “Make my vocabulary more complex.”

Quinton, 8, kept a shorter list.

“I will try to be good,” he wrote.

Grier, 9, wrote that he’s “hopefully” going to “be good in class and keep good care of the class utincils.”

Grier also hopes “to learn more coursive [writing]” and said: “I am gonna try to listen to the teacher. I want to be able to learn in shool.”

Five-year-old Ella kept her resolution simple and fun.

“I like to play in the snow,” she wrote.

Emma, 7, still seemed more interested in Christmas.

“I will play in the gras and I will sing christmas carrls [around] the tree,” she wrote.

Maybe Christmas was on 5-year-old Jordan’s mind, too.

“I will go shopping,” he wrote.

Several children seemed

determined to behave themselves in 2016.

Jesse Williams, 8, resolved “to help my mom and my dad take care of my brothers and sister.”

“I will be good for my family,”

wrote Joshua, 5.

Akariaha, 6, wanted to “be good” and help “wash dishis and … help wash the clothes.”

“I will be good for my mom and dad!” Gabby, 6, wrote.

Terriana, 6, also wants to help with the laundry in 2016 but already is focused on next December.

“I want to open presents”

and help with the Christmas tree, she wrote.

Five-year-old Bennett’s resolution was perhaps the most ambitious.

“I am going to be good for evere and evere,” Bennett declared, ending with a smiley face beside the word “Mom.”

At Quality Child Care, a teacher wrote what the children

said, but the resolutions still reflected the children’s youth and goals.

Kaden, 5, promised to be good every day at day care.

Rachel, also 5, said she wanted to go to deer camp more.

Gavyn, 8, resolved to be better at sports, and Landon, 5, intended to “go mudding.”