Joy Keeps Us Going

10/14/2019

Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person.
C. Neil Strait

“The word joy will probably not show up in a curriculum guide," wrote the late, beloved Bev Bos, in the book, Child Development. “And I don’t hear politicians using that word when they talk about schools and money and accountability. But those of us working hard to ensure a childhood for so many children know that if we did not hear laughter, giggling, hoopla, shouting, and cheering in our centers we couldn’t go on. It is the joy of each child that keeps us doing what we do.”

And in the beautiful little book, Modeling with Children Under Six (written in English and Spanish), Bolivian architect Roxana Salazar and Bolivian educator Maria Carmen Schulze write about the joy they witness whenever children are given the opportunity to work with clay and other modeling materials: “Modeling is art, art is creation. This means, to put the imagination into a malleable material and give it a ‘soul’…The children put all their determination and energy in what they are doing, they do not judge…they just love what they are making.”

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