Posts Tagged ‘values’
#13-52: Four of Hearts
Postcard 13 of 52: The Four of Hearts: Your Peak Moments The Four of Hearts: Your Peak Moments This next card is... Read more...
#12-52: Three of Spades
Postcard 12 of 52: The Three of Spades: What's Your Mission? The Three of Spades: What's Your Mission? This next card is... Read more...
Stop Making Sense… Suicide and Six Year Olds
Three weeks ago, I took a birthday cake into school to celebrate Hal’s birthday. Juan was a star – he’d made a birthday crown for Hal and his classmate, Yedra, who was also celebrating her birthday. We sang happy birthday in Spanish and English for both of them and they got to blow out candles –double cake all round! It was lovely. Juan ran the party in such a way that all the kids got cake, juice, party balloons and had fun in the class, then got to run it all off outside in the patio straight afterwards. As we were clearing up, he mentioned that in September Hal will be going up to the ‘primera’ – the first class in the big school, rather than infantil. I asked him what he would do then and he shrugged, smiled and said – be here, of course, teaching the little ones – it’s what I do! He seemed fine and to be genuinely enjoying himself. And when I picked Hal up from school later that day, Juan had collated all the birthday pictures the other kids had drawn for him into a little book. It was a wonderfully thoughtful memento to give a child of their key milestones in their childhood… Read more...
