I am a leader for my daughters 'sparks' unit. It's like brownies but younger girls. First of all ...what the hell was i thinking?!!
A room full of 5/6 yr old girls ... whose idea of fun is that?
I am preparing for this weeks meeting. We are learning about other countries.. this week is India. Ok i don't know anything about India. I have a book to help me..uh yah. I still know nothing about India. So now I have to fill an hour and fifteen minutes with games and crafts and stories and stuff about India. Does anyone know how long an hour and fifteen minutes can be?
A long friggin time let me tell you.
So this got me to thinking ( thats never good ) I am worried about having to entertain them all. Well thats not why i'm there ..is it? I'm supposed to be a role model ( oh god did they ever find the wrong person ... Britney might be better) We are supposed to teach them skills and give them self esteam. Can i not have someone do that for me?
But this lead me into a whole rollercoaster of thoughts. At the end of it i realized that my big concern is that they like me..that they remeber having fun with us.
OK that could go into the good colum or the bad. Am I feeling that little that I need valadation from 14 little girls?
Or do i really care that they have happy memories?
Lets go with the last one....less depressing and costs me nothing in therapy.
So if anyone has girls in sparks.... don't worry they're in very good hands. Possibly shakey ones , but good hands.
2 comments:
When is the meeting? If it's happened already, how did it go?
If it hasn't, you might think about bringing some Indian cloth and teaching them how to put on a sari.
Bring some spices used in Indian cooking and get the kids to smell it all, and then have a test of what is what, with the names written on the bottoms.
Bring some Indian music (great stuff, Indian influences are on a lot of Buddha Bar tunes), and if there's a TV and VCR, bring some great Bollywood movies to show clips of.
I speak to groups of hundreds of school kids and I get nervous, but I have a blast and I try to remember to keep it light and non-lecturing. As a motivational speaker I always want to leave them with a good lesson at the end too. Not a bad idea to do about India.
How old are the kids?
Anyway, have fun!!
i did it on thursday afternoon. and we did great. the girls had fun, and thats what i was worried about.
i had a couple of lengths of fabric(not sari length but close enough) and we wrapped sari's on everyone.
i couldn't find any music in enough time( and i don't have a burner)but we played a couple of games i got from the guiding website.
we also had some 'indian' rice pudding ( i think there was cardamon in it or something) and some mango.
i would have loved to show them some bollywood movies. i was trying to explain some of the dances but .... well i'm not a great dancer. it was funny not educational ...thats ok.
thank you very much for the ideas though. i'm doing ireland in a couple of weeks ... bring guinness?
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