Watch Out For the Walls

Every Sunday is a new adventure. I've said before how Robyn and I teach the 3 year olds in our church. Getting 3 year olds to do anything remotely organized is quite a feat. Whenever we need to move them from one place to another we have them all hold hands, this makes it much easier to keep the 7 of them from going in 7 different directions. The problem with holding hands is that there is always at least one (often more than one) that hold their right hand to their neighbor's right hand and this means that they have to walk backward. We try to tell them to walk forward but they just can't handle it. Even when they are walking forward they don't exactly pay attention to where they're going. All this culminated last week when we were going around a corner and one of the kids smacked his head into the wall.

This week we wanted to avoid that calamity. We tried fervently to get them to walk forward but Robyn also gave them a small warning. "When we go around corners, watch out for the walls." This was a simple reminder to not run into walls. We took the whole class on a little walk to the drinking fountain and when we went around the corner the kids were very wary of the danger that awaited them. They started yelling to each other so that they could protect each other. We were trying to quiet them but I couldn't help but laugh at the repeated ominous warning as it came from each child: "Watch out for the walls!"

I never thought of walls as being dangerous, but from the way the children expressed it they may as well have been yelling, "Watch out for the raptors!" Now that would have been a serious situation.