Saturday, April 17, 2010

Journal 1

As this volunteering project goes along, my outlook has changed on how children respect to adults. It was my original thought that children nowadays have become more disrespectful and unresponsive to authority. There are a majority of the kids I work with that I finding out that they just want to have fun, and even though they may get out of control every once in a while, they know that when they ask an adult a question its "teacher", "Mr.", or "Mrs.” That’s a refreshing revelation to know that America's youth, especially America's minority youth, is not as bad as portrayed in the media. It also surprised me that when we were playing flag football outside on Friday’s outdoor time, when I asked the girls if they knew how to play, they all replied they knew how to play. I know that when I was a kid, none of the girls that were in my class in elementary school wanted to play flag football or touch football, but there were 4 or 5 girls out of 11 out there playing with us. I thought it was really nice to see more interest in other sports by girls at a younger age than in years past.

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