The thing is, Punchinello was judging his value and self-worth by the words, opinions, and judgements of people around him. The fact is, Punchinello is like most people – walking around in shame, fearing the judgement of others, and never feeling good enough, talented enough, successful enough – doing everything to earn stars, and beating themselves up over the gray dots that they’ve been marked with. All day, the people in this village do their best to get stars from each other, and the people who cannot seem to perform well enough to get stars, walk around in shame. When they are impressed with someone, they put a star sticker on them, and when they are not impressed with someone, they put a gray dot on them. In the town where he lives, all of the people carry around boxes of star stickers and gray dot stickers. The book tells the story about a young man named Punchinello. One of my very favorite books – for people of ALL ages – is called “You Are Special” by Max Lucado. This week’s Growth Mindset classroom discussions were on the truth about how incredibly special and unique we all are.
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