Hey, Look At Me

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Isn't the baby impala in the image adorable. There he is picking his head up in the middle of a crowd of adult impalas as if to say "Look at me" or "Don't forget I'm here". All babies and children get that same type of look on their faces at various times. Some try to gain attention by being helpful and following all the rules while others are so eager for attention they will try to get it in any way they can. While I was teaching I could always pick out the ones that were eager for attention and didn't care how they got it. Disrupting a class was always the first attention grabbing behavior they would try. I would typically assign them a duty to preform and they seemed to settle down because they felt important. At least some of them would. Children need to now they matter, that someone is noticing them, someone cares enough to pay attention to what they are doing. Like the baby impala, they just want to know you care. Image Credit: Pixabay