Stories of Kindness from Around the World

I work with children for some reason, I am often able to calm the most difficult behaviors. Children seem to sense intuitively that I believe in them. This level of understanding comes from a spiritual place and no matter what kind of day I might be having, I always rise to the immediate occasion and work to allow children to maintain their own dignity.

One of the children I work with is a young boy  of 11 who  comes from a very tumultuous home. When at home, he is able to go and do as he pleases without asking anyone’s permission. He is on the street, riding his bicycle, meeting up with friends, at all hours.

At school he has a difficult time listening to adult instruction and like at home, likes to go wherever he wants, when he wants. The adults become very upset with him and when they express their angst, he usually responds with a sarcastic comment, digging himself deeper into trouble.

I have started to call him the "street rat" like in the Disney movie Aladdin, Aladdin is called a  "street rat" but he is really a prince and does not know his pedigree. I often say to the other adults working with this boy, "we need to find the prince, he is in there, I know it." Because I believe he is a prince, and it is clearly indicated in my eyes, my patience and my demonstrated respect, he believes that he could become that prince.

Children know things. They know deeply and will respond in a way that lets you know that they know for he has always treated me with the utmost respect and is able to accept consequences and return to a brand new day or moment and begin again.