While parents understand how dangerous bullying can be, it’s difficult to explain to kids how important it is to be kind to others since they don’t yet understand how harmful their words can be.
In order to teach her students about how dangerous bullying is and how powerful words can be, one British teacher got creative and used two apples to make a point. On the outside, the two apples looked identical. Both were shiny and red, however, they were completely opposite on the inside.
Before class, teacher Rosie Dutton repeatedly dropped one of the apples on the floor, but on the outside it looked perfect. When her students got to class, she showed them the two apples and asked them to describe how they looked. “The children described how both apples looked the same; both were red, were of similar size and looked juicy enough to eat.”
“I picked up the apple I’d dropped on the floor and started to tell the children how I disliked this apple, that I thought it was disgusting, it was a horrible colour and the stem was just too short. I told them that because I didn’t like it, I didn’t want them to like it either, so they should call it names too,” Dutton said of the moment she got her students to start saying cruel things to the apple. “We then passed another apple around and started to say kind words to it, ‘You’re a lovely apple’, ‘Your skin is beautiful’, ‘What a beautiful colour you are’ etc.”
“I then held up both apples, and again, we talked about the similarities and differences, there was no change, both apples still looked the same. I then cut the apples open. The apple we’d been kind to was clear, fresh and juicy inside. The apple we’d said unkind words to was bruised and all mushy inside,” Dutton said.
“I think there was a lightbulb moment for the children immediately,” she said. “They really got it, what we saw inside that apple, the bruises, the mush and the broken bits is what is happening inside every one of us when someone mistreats us with their words or actions.”
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Teacher Uses Two Apples To Prove Powerful Point About Bullying is an article from: LifeDaily