Helping Challenging Children Integrate Their Brains and Bodies By Being Helpful

0:00 so we also do what's in the classroom we also have children be of service we also have jobs so they can help one another we also have ways to be helpful when you're finished your work you can help someone else and we have children who are less integrated than others and the ones that are less integrated than others as you can imagine have behaviors that are a little challenging for the teacher so challenging kids equals less

0:30 integration within so we say tell you what you guys be of service you're going to get an extra job you're going to be this you're going to be this you're going to go help all the time we're asking you to be service would you go help this person would you go help this person would you go help this person and by giving that to others guess what happens to the child their being starts to integrate up their brain

0:56 integrates up and guess what happens to their behavior the behaviors become more pro-social and people don't kind of people like how did that happen how did that happen everybody in here has experienced a mo a moment where you had compassion and you acted on that compassion with helpfulness or empathy or something has everybody had that after that experience whether they knew it was you or not how did you

1:28 feel yeah I mean that's a good feeling that's like I am not here to take up space I am not here to shop I am not here to make more money for people I am not here to keep money circulating in an economy I'm here for a big big reason I mean you're not saying that to yourself but you walk with this like I matter there's a space for me I'm here to serve and I did it and it

1:56 feels good and that's that sense you get from interconnectedness the interconnected of your organs the interconnected in your classroom and the interconnected of the world