Young Love-Really Young Love
Read more articles on Love and Let Me Share With You.October 11, 2006
Posted by Karen Amato Schwartz
October 11, 2006
Posted by Karen Amato Schwartz
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There is the most amusing situation going on right now where I work: two preschoolers are totally smitten with each other.
On Monday, two classes were outside at the same time, which rarely happens. We teachers noticed one of the boys-almost 5-following a 3 ½ year old cutie around the playground. She’d stop, look at him, smile, and he’d just trot right along behind her. This continued for some time. The girl told a teacher that he was her new “best friend”, although when the boy was asked if he knew her name, he replied that he did not. It eventually came time for the younger class to go back in, at which point the two kids were observed giving each other a big hug. We all smiled and commented about how sweet it was.
Yesterday, the boy sat forlornly on the grass while all of the other kids played around him. When asked why he wasn’t playing, he admitted that he missed his “friend”. (Her class does not meet on Tuesdays.) He seemed forsaken all morning, although there are many other children in his own class with whom to play.
Today we took all of the classes to a presentation given by the local volunteer fire company. As the children lined up to get a close look at the fire fighter clothing, I noticed the girl “giving the eye” to the boy, who, upon noticing her, piped up with, “There’s my girl!” She saw him looking and gave him a rather playful smile, which was enough motivation for him to jump up and run over to her-although he’d just said he wasn’t interested in seeing the fire gear. So the two stood in line, hand in hand, until her turn, after which they wandered off together. Next, when it was time for the opportunity to sit in the fire truck, the children were taken separately, except for these two. They remained joined at the hands for the remaining 10 minutes. She kept gazing up at him with a secretive little smile, and he kept looking down at her, grinning from ear to ear.
It was too adorable for words.
This girl seems to have captured a beau with just a tilt of the head and a smile in her eyes, and nothing makes him happier than to be near her. I wonder if they’ve learned each other’s first names yet.
Seeing this can make a person wonder about the underlying vibes we sense about other, and just what constitutes an attraction. These two kids were intuitively drawn to each other literally upon first sight, resulting in a complete disregard for the other 20 friends in their classes. What are they picking up on? What signals are being sent? How well can two preschoolers really know each other?
Perhaps romance isn’t so much the case of finding someone who meets qualifications or has the same interests and hobbies. Maybe it really is just a sudden and total attraction that is unexplainable, as evidenced by youngsters who are too young to put labels on things-or on each other.
I hope to hear someday that they have grown up and are still together, for then I can say that I remember how they were drawn to each other as young children. It would be nice to see that the spark stayed with them-that spark that made their worlds revolve around each other before the age of five.
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