Charlie Bit My Finger! Ow, Charlie, That REALLY Hurt!

Meet four 6th grade girls, with who I have the pleasure of working: Cecile (Belgium/USA), JC (Burkina Faso), Ada (Senegal/USA) and Carlota (Spain). Four sweet kids -- smart, friendly, funny, and nutz -- all on the middle school soccer team. While the season is now over, the girls hung around together after school, awaiting practice, entertaining us with their well-polished, finely-crafted dramatic skills.

By example, you may have heard of the much viewed You Tube video titled CharlieBitMyFinger. Yes, it was funny, and yes, it was somewhat entertaining, but check out the refined interpretation by Cecile, Ada, and friends:

It is true: all children of 11 and 12 years old, by virtue of their biology, pass through common maturational stages of intellectual, emotional, and physical growth that may best be characterized as sweet chaos. I enjoy them for the same reasons I enjoy watching gibbons.