watch what you are doing and just stop and think for a split second about what you are going to do.
one of the girls looked at me, looked at her friends, and looked back at me. i could almost hear that something had clicked – i could see it in her face.
‘ah’, she said. ‘i get it’. she nodded and smiled.
she slotted her new learning firmly into place. having fun in the game was a way of practicing something that might help you sort out a real argument in the playground. the feeling you get when you have to ‘straighten out’ the mixed-up instruction is a bit like the will-power 