We go into a classroom, we ask anybody in this classroom, and 500 children sitting on their tushies on the floor. Anybody know what they’re great at? Every child knows what they’re great at. Some of them are great at logarithms, I say that makes one of us. Some of them are great at making friends.
One kid said he was great at soccer, one kid was great at plastering. They all know, and if you tell them I was told that I would never achieve, and I’m here to tell you, they don’t know what they’re talking about. 500 kids from kindergarten to seniors, and all they want to do at the end of our presentation is hug us.
They just, and it is, I don’t know what it is, it’s like one of the greatest happenings on the earth outside of our own families.
What you see with kids is they want to be seen, and they want to be seen and not judged. So we come in to classrooms, we’re friendly adults, we don’t have an expectation of them. They don’t, we’re not giving them a grade, we’re not raising them, we’re just expecting them to be themselves and to be authentic and they feel that and they love it.
And we are happy to be with them. So there isn’t any judgment, it’s really fun for us to be with the kids.
Oh it’s fun. And what is interesting is that if you say something that connects the room is abuzz, they now have forgotten that you are standing there, they are talking and all we do is say you know what, can I just say one thing, I’m just talking to Clarice, I can’t hear Clarice because there are so many of you and only one of her.
And all of a sudden, they get it. Please, ask your question, boom.