Friday, August 25, 2017

Practicing with Teenagers

There's an energy about them which helps me understand how I was at that age.  There's a surface hardness and an inner innocence.

In studying Bye Bye Birdie and the inauguration of the teenager; it's appropriate.

If I am going to substitute teach I have to ignore the chatter and this is easier as I watched two adults- one old, one young; last night- demand obedience with impatience when what was actually happening was that the very talented, friendly, well-meaning teenagers were taking a half-second longer than expected to comply.

We're just not hard-wired at that age for obedience.

It takes them a minute.

Well- a second.  They're great kids.

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