They like me?

One of my dance groups has had some growing pains the last few years...you know the kind: 10 high school girls and one boy with emotions and hormones running high with sharp tongues and a natural sense of competition. Don't get me wrong because this is a great group of kids..but they have their moments. So I had them do a little project that was presented to me as a high schooler in a dance group of very similar people. They wrote down one nice thing about each person in the group and then I compiled all the comments so that they could each have their own sheet. The things they said about each other were great...some of it was dance related and some of it had to do with general personalities and positive traits. And some of them even went to far as to write "Madeline" in on the bottom of the page and write a little something about her. She's around the studio almost as much as I am so they've gotten to see a lot of her personality. They said things like: I bet you'll be the next Gabriella (High School Musical) or Hannah Montana, you're the greatest singer and dancer I know, you are so funny and you always make us laugh... So I read these to Madeline at dinner that night. Her eyes lit up! She was so excited that all these big kids had such nice things to say about her!!! She turns to me and says, "they like me? They really like me??" She was being so sincere that I absolutely had to stiffle my chuckle at her reaction. "Of course they like you, Madeline!!!"