Aha Moments and Kids
My daughter just turned 12 and her celebration was a sleepover birthday party. I had 8 girls of the same age in my house and they pretty much occupied it all. My husband took a night shift and my 24 year old son went hiding in his room. Girls were happy: they ate, watched movies, listened to the music, talked. In the morning they started to play a game. They decided to rate each other, actually they were rating not only character traits like kindness but also ...body parts: hair, nails, nose, etc. I missed the beginning of the game because I was cooking waffles (they all loved my waffles and Alice was very proud of my cooking abilities.) so I did not get a chance to talk to them about uniqueness and since they liked me they would have not maybe played the game but...I was cooking waffles. Everything is auspicious, right?
I called them downstairs and observed the end of it. "You gave me 2 for my nose! Oh, I gave you 5 for your hair!" Then they said: "We just ruined our self-esteem, didn't we?" And a huge sigh of relief went through the breakfast table. "We will never play the game like that again", they said.
And I thought, "I certainly hope so and please include looking all the magazine pictures as your standards as well."
What I also enjoyed immensely was the speed of recovery. They un-clutched from that whole thing with a speed of light once the correct understanding happened. And "Peak Performance" group for kids made a lot of sense...again.
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