Reaching for new heights

Two boys were monkeying around on the pull up bars. Heavens know why pull up bar even exist at school because no one would ever use then if it were not for days like these.

The little dudes here decided that they wanted to reach the cross bars, which for a first graders is often very high. The boy in white, being taller, was aiming for the higher of the two bars. He had the correct idea despite being amusingly unsuccessful. The boy in blue had a similar idea, except that his ambitions were lower and more appropriate to his size.








On a side note. It's so sad when I see children in situations like this stuck wearing shoes. People from countries with cold weather tend to wear shoe outside every day of their lives from the moment they can walk. Children from warm countries like you have in most of Africa rarely need to wear shoes until they go to high school . I myself didn't wear shoes, even to school, until I went to high school at thirteen years of age.

"But they will injure themselves" Trust me, they are not nearly as fragile as you think and they will very quickly learn to LOOK WHERE THEY ARE GOING instead of taking it for granted that there is something to protect them from their own negligence.