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If you'll remember, a couple weeks ago I tried to get my kids and their friends to dance with me for our Teaching Your Children Joy
activity and they were not having it. Today's activity was to create a "body band" by exploring all the ways our bodies can make music. Listening to our kid music station on Pandora, Beck, Peyton, and I were laughing while we clapped, snapped, clicked our tongues, and stomped our feet along to the beats.
Then, without knowing I was doing it, I got up off the couch and started dancing. Not just moving my feet and shaking my bum, but full on joyful amateur ballerina dancing. It was almost the length of an entire song before I realized the boys had become quiet and still. They were just staring at me...confused and worried looks painted across their faces.
I bowed out quickly. Because I'm not a dancer, and yet there I'd been lost in the moment and learning my own lesson that we can find joy in the unexpected abilities of our bodies.
activity and they were not having it. Today's activity was to create a "body band" by exploring all the ways our bodies can make music. Listening to our kid music station on Pandora, Beck, Peyton, and I were laughing while we clapped, snapped, clicked our tongues, and stomped our feet along to the beats. Then, without knowing I was doing it, I got up off the couch and started dancing. Not just moving my feet and shaking my bum, but full on joyful amateur ballerina dancing. It was almost the length of an entire song before I realized the boys had become quiet and still. They were just staring at me...confused and worried looks painted across their faces.
I bowed out quickly. Because I'm not a dancer, and yet there I'd been lost in the moment and learning my own lesson that we can find joy in the unexpected abilities of our bodies.
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