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Odd connection
Mar. 22nd, 2011 04:16 pmI was teaching "My Favourite Things" today (I'm starting a series of songs in waltz time, having taught 4/4 time successfully most of the fall) and that led to a Sound of Music-themed earworm.
On the way home, while singing, "How do you solve a problem like Maria?" I realized something: the way the nuns describe Maria in that song is a perfect description of someone with ADHD. The nuns who are driven wild by her behaviour are those who see order as key, and her disturbance of their order a major crime; those who see her as sweet, kind, gentle, and fanciful see character as based first in how she treats others, rather than how she behaves, and they advocate for the good in her.
The result, for me, will be humming that song every time I'm trying to deal with an ADHD child who just will. not. sit. still. They won't get the reference and it will help me deal.
On the way home, while singing, "How do you solve a problem like Maria?" I realized something: the way the nuns describe Maria in that song is a perfect description of someone with ADHD. The nuns who are driven wild by her behaviour are those who see order as key, and her disturbance of their order a major crime; those who see her as sweet, kind, gentle, and fanciful see character as based first in how she treats others, rather than how she behaves, and they advocate for the good in her.
The result, for me, will be humming that song every time I'm trying to deal with an ADHD child who just will. not. sit. still. They won't get the reference and it will help me deal.