Today, with the I.R.I.S.E after school program we went to the preschool across the street. We usually just go to the garden and do activities there but we went in the class and introduced ourselves and played with them. It was a very diverse preschool but that's very common for my town. I said hi to a few kids and they attracted to me, they forced me to: play dress up, color, look for treasure, paint, play house and look at power ranger stuff.
After watching and observing these children I caught on to some of their behavioral differences and ignorance to things which was really interesting. But what really caught my eyes were the different hair styles the 25 kids had. But there was one little girl who was really shy that had in weave braids. The African girls had braids of course and the Hispanic girls had pony tails down to their lower backs. But the girls with weave braids shocked me because she was no older than 5 and was already going through society influence and she couldn't have the chance to express her own natural hair for preschool, how is she going to handle the world?
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