Gift of the day

Gifts of the day are wonderfull insights, miracles or experiences people are encountering daily. Sometimes you have these aha moments, these great moments of remembering who you are. Or you feel that there is magic in the air. Gifts also can be something a person said, something you hear in the train. The most fun thing: They are everywhere! I realised I experience the most amazing things. I always like to hear about other people's lifes. So I am happy to share my gifts of the day here. The gift of the "You are not my boss!"" Every wednesday I play with a group of children from 5 to 7 year old. Together we make plays and scenes. I love to play and teach them. I like to use a lot of music in the lessons. We dance, we shake everything and we practice. We always have a lot of fun. It's a large group of 24 children. I choose the games we play carefully cause it has to be interesting for everyone. Last wednesday we made up rules together which would make it easier and more fun to play together. SO we promised that we would listen to each other. During one exercise one boy forget that, so I reminded him of the rule we made. the exercise tested his patience a lot. So he forget the rule and was talking trough other kids and was playing with his key all the time. So I told him that he could wait at the side till I was done and than he could play with the other kids again. Than he thought hey this is fun I am gonna sneak into the group and watch if the teacher sees me. But ofcourse teachers have eyes in their back and see it all. So while the other kids where playing I called him to me. I said we made a promise and I saw you sneaked back into the group. I want to talk with you about that. Than he went so mad. He said: but but but You are not my boss! And he looked at me like: how can you tell me what to do. So I laughed a lot in myself about the courage he showed. I could say such a things also to teachers when I was young. I said to him. You are so right! I am not your boss. And you know what.... Nobody can be your boss. You know why? I asked him. He nodded no, with a interesting face thinking what is she gonna say.. I said to him: You are always and always you're own boss! That wasn't what he expected. I explained that we made rules before we started otherwise it's difficult to hear each other talk and than we can't play nicely. And if we can't play nice I can't do these fun things. Than we have to go back to the boring things, or someone has to sit to the side for a few minutes. He didn't agreed completely that he needed to listen which was expected, but it was nice to change things around. I putted the responsibillity back to him and gave him the choice what to do. He choosed to sit at the side cause he wasn't in the mood for listening that day he said. I respected him for that and said: thanks for choosing. I realised he was often so misunderstood and labeled with adhd. I made the commitment to myself to make my next lesson more interactive and active so that it would also be interesting for him. I giggled in myself for the great wisdom he had showed that day.

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