To Care And Think of Others!

As children mature and function at higher levels of cognitive development, they are able to gain more and more pro-social skills. But how are they to learn them? Modeling by adults and peers is a very effective way for children to learn these skills.

Today at circle time we discussed with the children that a few TBSCC families really needed some help with cooking and baking. We talked briefly about their unfortunate accidents and at this point in time, they do not have the use of their arm/hand as it needs to heal first. The children decided to bake brownies for both families. The Tel Aviv class baked for the Steinberg Family and the All Star Lunch Bunch group baked for the Hart Family.

In both the morning and afternoon programs a few of the children asked if they could have a brownie or two? A very age appropriate question! I explained once again to the children how these families really needed our help, and we baked today to give them a special treat, as they can not bake for themselves right now. It was amazing to me how the children really grasped the concept. A few of them responded by saying, "Yeah we are giving the brownies to Isaiah's family." This is a mitzvah to give, to care and think of others!