May 12, 2024
This month in Preschool, our theme is Transportation. To go along with that, Peg let me borrow a really fun set of battery operated cars and tracks. I've learned a life lesson as I've watched different groups of kids play with these tracks.
First off, the preschool kids. We've found as we've played that if the tracks aren't put together exactly right, or if part of the track piece has been slightly bent or damaged, the cars will derail and go off track. I didn't think much about it at first because it doesn't seem to bother the preschoolers at all. They are so excited and find so much joy in following their car as it goes around the big track. If it goes off, they just quickly correct it and move on. There's so much energy and laughter and fun. I've loved watching as they all are running around right with their cars, correcting and continuing.
Other grandkids have come to play and enthusiastically put the track together, but when they experienced the frequent challenges with the cars, they quickly became discouraged. They got so hung up on the problem and trying to.fix the track's issues, that before long they had no interest in playing with this toy. They were discouraged and definitely didn't find any joy in their experience.
I'm afraid in my life I'm often more like the second group. I easily become discouraged with the frequent challenges and instead of quickly correcting my mistakes and continuing on in joy, I focus on the negative and miss the joy.
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