Mary Helen Immordino-Yang

They do bad things.

They lose control of their emotion.

They get angry and they just do something before they think.

And they deserve to be rounded up or punished in some way.

And that's how you're going to control things.

Right.

Or there's nothing that can be done to control it, said one kid.

This is just how these people are.

Stay away from them.

Other kids went beyond this to say, well, I think you have to think about the bigger picture.

I think you have to think about the person's history, one kid told me.

He said something like, everyone has a history.

Everyone has a story.

And that changes who they are because of the way they've lived in their life.

So if we really wanted to do something to make the neighborhood better, we should think about why these people feel the way they do, that they get themselves into these situations.

And he went on to tell me about his own family and how he had been loved and safe, but maybe these people hadn't been.

And maybe that's where we should focus our efforts if we wanted to make the neighborhood better.

That's right.

And you're trying to understand what makes the forest go, right?

You're trying to see the hidden forces that are not immediately obvious when you just look at the forest.