return of the tear factory!

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Today is part two of “Have you seen a child cry today? I have.” I saw a child cry and was in the presence of the former cry-inducer. It was any normal day, teaching some adorable 2nd-graders about guessing games and choosing students to guess.

Then all of a sudden, without any action from the cry-creator, a boy got really mad at me, when I chose another student to come to the front of the room to participate in what I thought was a totally wu liao you xi or using my favorite chinese word, a boring game. This game involved me standing a student in front of the class and spouting out questions like “Who is he? How old is she? What’s his favorite animal? What’s her hobby?”

Apparently, this boy really wanted to play and was quite insulted when I didn’t choose him. He threw a mini-fit that turned into telling my assistant that I hadn’t chosen him for any games in the last three classes. In about a minute, he broke out into tears just in time for the bell to ring and for class to be over.

The moral of the story is: kids cry from meanness, but also from lack of participation in poorly planned games.

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