I'm sitting at a basketball camp in Hesperia, CA helping my husband. Helping him with paperwork that is. If I were to teach at a basketball camp I would scare away his clients. For a few years I've asked for him to teach me how to play, but he hasn't yet. Oh well, maybe by the time I'm 70.
Anyway, back to the topic of kids. They're so cute. Until you have them in your class, get to know them, and see them as real people. Kids are cool, but they are people too. They have their own opinions, personality quirks, and giftings. Kids are really great, but they really can work on my nerves at times. For example, when Gio won't shut up in class, when Ivan attempts to run you down with his wheel chair, or when Laly does all she can to get out of work simply because she struggles to learn and is frustrated and embarrassed by it.
Kids are people too, but we need to treat them more kindly than we do adults. No, that does not mean to spoil or indulge them, it means not to crush them. I can't tell you how many people I've met who claim to love kids, yet they speak harshly to them without cause, favor some and despise others, or just do a crap job at teaching and the kids don't learn. On one occasion I had to stand between a teacher and a student and tell the teacher to back off and stop yelling at my kid. Granted, he was a pain in the rear, but the teacher needed to get a hold of herself and leave my student alone. Go pick on someone your own age.
Kids are fragile. Be nice to them.
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