people are fickle. one minute a kid is best friends with someone, and the next he is knocking their tower down and kicking the pieces all over the room. obviously, the victim of the tower demolition feels a certain amount of injustice, gets angry-or sad-and has some kind of emotional reaction. nine times out of ten, a third party comes onto the scene, either voluntarily or after being summoned by the demolition victim. this third party will almost always first quickly console the victim, and then berate the tower wrecker. after sufficiently chewing out the offender, the third party "hero" normally does one or more of these things; helps the victim to rebuild the tower, finds someone else to help the victim rebuild the tower, offers moral support to the victim and a bit more castigation to the demolish-er, or simply walks away. interestingly, a majority of the time, the tower wrecker will also have a desire to help rebuild. human nature causes us to think, "no way would i let someone who wrecked my tower help me to rebuild it!!" thankfully, kids aren't human. heheh. not fully human, anyway. more often than not, the tower wrecker is welcomed back into the good graces of the victim and construction commences. it never surprises me that the new tower is always far more awesome and elaborate than the old tower was.

this is what makes teachers smile:
when kids stick up for other kids.

this is what makes kids smile:
candy.