Hi Reim Families- it is good to be back together at Shalom, appreciating each other and the opportunity to share in your and your children’s lives in this way. The children are appreciating each other too. It is not unusual to see a child spontaneously hug a friend, and just today in the gym I saw a child help her classmate with his socks after our wonderful Music and Motion class just because he had a moment of frustration.
The kids have enjoyed the small Arctic figurines we have placed in the science center. One of my interests as well, it is fun to share love of nature through introducing children to things such as the Aurora Borealis .
Today at Group time one of the stories and topics of discussion was a version of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf.” Now, in Reim it was the Bunny who cried wolf, but the point was the same. I usually tell this story at some time with this age group as they explore the use of the spoken word and experiment with bending the truth and full-on lying. It is actually a developmental milestone as young persons begin to understand that their thoughts are private and to grasp the weight that words can have. Researchers have even established that other primates learn that they can intentionally mislead and deceive others! If you are experienced parents, then you have been through this before, and understand that if your child tells you a whopper, it doesn’t mean the same thing as if it were a peer attempting to pass off a falsehood as the truth. These teaching moments establish the real meaning of trust.
Stay warm in the Artic blast!
