Today was my third trip out to the Easly community center. Once again I had a great time working with the kids. There was not much homework this afternoon and I had the opportunity to play connect-four with a few of the kids at the center. I was surprised at how excited they are that an adult was playing at the center with them. There are several adult chaperons that walk around the center in their metro parks attire, but they seem to rarely sit down and actually play games with the kids. One girl in particular that I played the game with was very excited everything she would win. Previously she had been playing with some of the older boys who would win every game leaving her rather discouraged. It was so exciting for me to watch her laugh and jump around whenever she would win the game between the two of us. It was amazing how once she started winning her confidence automatically improved. She started talking more, telling me more about herself, what types of things she liked to do, etc. At first she was very quiet and seemed rather sad, but once she started winning at the game the transformation was amazing. What I took away from today’s experience was the power of confidence and the feeling of wining and what it can do for a child. Its amazing on attitudes change once you think you can win at something.
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