We bought her a ticket, and the day of the trip she came to the airport, but she was holding onto her mother's hand with an iron grip. But at the last minute she got on the plane, and she sailed through the trip. If you bring children into the reality of what's going on, you have no trouble, but if you rely on unnatural authority, they know it's fake, and they don't respect it. That's true in any school, but we have a situation that allows us to be very real, because the children are with us all day. We eat with them, we're on the playground with them, and each child meets with the teacher individually every day before school starts.
Many people believe that time spent addressing feelings is time that's lost for learning.
They thrive, and they're usually ahead when they enter those schools, whereas the children who come to Living Wisdom School tend to be a little bit behind. But if you really deliver the goods educationally, you have no classroom management problems. And we do deliver. We've noticed that the children aren't afraid of us. They feel perfectly fine about coming up and asking how we are.