Today was Madeleine's first class at Creative Movement, after two years of watching Julia's classes from behind the closed glass doors to the gym. I have to admit, I had no idea what to expect in terms of behavior. I figured there was a fair chance that Madeleine would have no interest in sitting at circle time participating in group movement activities, but thought maybe this would be a good introduction to how to take part and behave in a group setting.
So the class started off, and amidst the chaos of toddlers running rampant, knocking over the barrier of mats to get into the closed-off gym area, kids having screaming melt-downs on the mat, mothers frantically running off to grab their errant kids, can you guess who was the only toddler in the whole class who sat there on the rug, copying the body movements the teacher was demonstrating, actually participating in the class? Would you believe it was Madeleine? The kid who had a full out laying-on-the-back kicking and screaming tantrum in CVS because I went and grabbed her after she tried to run out the automatic doors while we waited in line?
I know. I was pretty shocked too.
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