When the little girl came into her class the young helper was there waiting for her and being wise beyond her years she put her arm around the little girl’s shoulders and said “It’s ok, it will be alright”.
The little girl didn’t know how it was going to be alright when it seemed her whole day, her whole life was ruined.
The young helper sensing the little girls doubt explained to her that today’s lesson is going to be “learning to read the tag on your dress and learning to use the washing machine and clothes dryer”.
The little girl was kinda happy and kinda scared at the same time, but she looked right at the young helper, wiped her tears for the last time and said “ok”.
So in that class the young helper was able to see just how smart the little girl was and how hard she could work. The young helper just marveled at how intent the little girl listened and how fast she could grasp the information. But the little girl wanted to. She wanted to listen. She wanted to learn, she had to learn. If it meant saving her most favorite, very beautiful yellow dress then she was going to do it!
Time seemed to slow down in that class and the young helper and the little girl were lost in learning, reading the directions on the wash tag and learning how the machines worked. It seemed they had all the time in the world and by the end of class the little girl was going through and reading the steps on the dress’s wash tag and doing the buttons on the “machine”.
You see being wise beyond her years the young helper used a shoe box, some bottle caps and a sharpie marker to “make” a washing machine and clothes dryer that the little girl could put a little yellow post it note into, pretending it was her most favorite, very beautiful yellow dress and doing her laundry.
So the little girl learned how to read the tag on her dress and how to use the machines.
The young helper was very pleased and proud of the little girl and wished that there was something more she could do.
But she was just a young girl herself.
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