I did two consecutive hours on Monday, October 10. The first hour, I helped a girl do her homework. She was doing multiplication and I tried to help her with her multiplication tables, but she didn't want to have anything to do with it. She just wanted to use someone's cell phone calculator. The more I tried to help her, the more she tried to use me to get the answers. When I tried to get her to figure it out she would get upset and proclaim her hate for math homework. I'm wondering what I can do differently to help kids understand the importance of critical thinking...
I mostly just played outside during the second hour. One older girl put her arm in mine; I didn't really notice. One of the men in charge yelled at her over the field to let go of me. I didn't understand him (in fact, I don't understand a lot of them when they are talking with each other). When she took her arm out of mine, I realized that it wasn't appropriate for us to be touching. I became a little bit angry inside at this realization. The kids who are touchy obviously need the human touch. The healthy human needs at least 7 touches a day (I wholeheartedly agree with this statistic because when I came to college, I longed for a friendly touch for a few months before I made friends); I feel that some of these kids don't get that many friendly touches. My personality is one that is urged to meet needs. I want to be able to hug them, and pick them up, and hold their hands because they need it. It makes me a little bit angry inside that this could be a legal issue because there are creeps out in the world that make it harder for non creeps to actually live! Also, one of the girls kept begging me to pick her up and help her do things; she got mad at me for not doing it. I wanted to, but knew I shouldn't; so I just had to be okay with her being mad at me.
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