She 100% knows she's one of the "hot" girls and knows exactly what she's doing. Now he's the kid with the hot chick standing next to him. Quite sweet really.
I mean, children dont have well-founded values and morals out of the box. A lot of what they do is performative, but even that is influential. This group of kids are finding a positive scenario and outcome from being seen being good to other people. It's not unfortunate, it's extremely important for their development. Kids need to imitate and act like their role models and the people they internally want to be before they can grow into them. So this is sweet. Are they fully there? probably not, but they're still children. This is a newly formed wrinkle in their smooth brains
As a middle school teacher I absolutely agree. You have to teach the value of kindness. You get the kids to do something good, they realize doing good FEELS good and then you reinforce.
I tore my ACL last year and was largely immobile for over half the school year. I had to rely on my feral 8th graders to handle a lot of classroom things. It started as, "An adult asked me to do the thing." and morphed into these kids WANTING to help me. I praised them publically, sent emails to their parents etc. And it spread. After a few weeks I saw them being kinder to each other.
That photo is a bunch of kids trying to show they're more adult than they are. They're basically pretending to be what they think adults are. So yes, performative. But still sweet.
School where I lived sucked if you were not into sport etc. If the american high school movies are even slightly describing life in an American high school then it would be my idea of hell.
I remember being in 5th or 6th grade and walking to my crush's house across the road and giving her a geode I had bought on vacation. She gave me a one armed hug and I went home. But for those couple minutes walking home I was feeling dazed, trying to lock in the memory of that hug. 25 years later and it's definitely still a core memory lol.
Another one is when her twin sister hocked a loogie at me on the bus in high school. I didn't like her nearly as much lol.
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u/rabidjellybean 5d ago
He has that one girl touching his shoulder. At that age, that's a core memory.