Thoughts on Smiling Kids

I just read something that seems so true and yet so simple -- so important and so often overlooked.  Something that bears repeating and remembering:

"Many years ago a world-wide assessment was made on teaching efforts, educational input, and effectiveness in schools to see if they could find a common denominator.  They found one universal trait: If the children are smiling, there is learning going on."   John Adair


This speaks so strongly to me, both as a parent and as a teacher.  So, to add to my other statement that my friend Michelle published on her site, "Dirty kids are smarter kids",
 

I am adding, "Smiling kids are learning kids." 

It's all good.