Tweens (9-13 years old)… Not a single word. At one point I paused and said: “You guys know who Bruce Lee is, right?” And silence. One day during the tweens class we were having a lesson about focus and composure, during which I proceeded to tell a story about Bruce Lee. Maybe the kids will vaguely know Van Damme, and Ahnould, and Stallone, but they will never be appreciated as heroes. Your childhood heroes are exactly that: Yours. The fact of the matter is, each generation gap is bridged by two different realities… While these principles may be true, there is a difference in energy and perspective, all stemming from the fact that while they were learning to walk for the first time and say their first words, I was on a Metro North train to White Plains for my first job interview. Just think like a kid, listen to them, don’t talk down to them, treat them like adults, they are much smarter than we think, and you’ll be fine. When I first started out teaching the 6 and 7-year-olds, I was in an ‘I got this’ frame of mind. But here’s the realization that both the angels and the brats make you come to: You ain’t a kid no more. You get the darling angels that you wish were yours, and you get the caffeine-infused energizer bunnies where everything goes in one ear and out the other, who make you grateful for your own solitude. Being a children’s acting instructor continues to be a humbling, world-realizing and self-realizing experience.
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