As soon as I was halfway through kindergarten, I was a wreck. It was not really my fault. You see, there are two kinds of kindergarten teachers. There are kindergarten instructors who are there because they love little children, and want to make a difference in young lives. These kindergarten teachers are wonderful. Then there are the other kind – the kind who are there because they are petty tyrants who want to make kids miserable. This is the kind of kindergarten instructor that I had.
I was not long before I became the class clown. You see, she would pick on me and bully me. She hated the fact that my handwriting wasn’t neat, and that I couldn’t color inside the lines. Soon, I began to act out. I had few friends. That is when my parents decided that social skills lessons were in order.
You might think that you’ve never had a social skills lesson in school, but if you have you might not have noticed. Social skills lessons are very cleverly designed, and they are taught to kids at a young age. Anything that teaches children to share, to be polite, or to work together falls under the rubric of social skills lessons. For me however, these lessons in social skills were not enough. I needed the heavy-duty classes.
My parents took me to the only social skills lessons class that they could find, but this turned out to be a terrible mistake. It was geared towards children with autism, and I felt very uncomfortable in there. This made me act out even more, and soon I was regularly getting kicked out of my social skills class. That’s when one of my instructors took me under her wing.
She could see that the social skills lessons were not working for me. You see, it wasn’t my social skills that were problem. It was my self-confidence. I been so shaken up by having such a mean instructor that I had begun to lash out, trying to get attention. Of course, in some ways the social skills lessons could help, but it was much superior to get to the root of the problem. My parents immediately took me out of the social skills lessons class and put me in therapy. That did wonders for my self-confidence, and although I’ve had my share of problems growing up, I ultimately turned in to a pretty happy, confident adult.
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