Running in Circles

As one of the dads came in to pick up his kids last night – and they proceeded to continue playing, completely unaware of his presence – he shrugged at me, “Well, I suppose it’s a good thing that they never want to leave.”

Every week, we hear from parents that their kids, “look forwards to it all week,” which might have something to do with the fact that we spin their kids in so many circles that they don’t remember anything but a dizzy adrenaline high!



Okay, so, we do things besides spin the kids in circles. We also run in lots of circles, playing various forms of tag and catch and monkey in the middle. (Yes. Even monkey in the middle manages to involve running in circles, because we’re skilled like that.) And, we play “ninjas” in circles around the church. And, there are basically a lot of circles.


We decided a few weeks ago, though, that two of the high school teachers seem to inspire relative calm, while the other two seem to inspire circle running and jumping and pouncing. (The fifth teacher and I also tend to create controlled chaos.)

Case in point: the above picture is two of them playing with a group of kids.

The bottom picture is the other two playing with a group of kids (and is incredibly blurry because a four-year-old was tugging on my hand to, “Spin me! Spin me!”).

Notice a difference?