learning from kids

I have always believed that adults don't give young kids enough credit. Kids are always learning from their environments they pick up on things like how adults speak to them. They can tell when someone is just partially listening to them or if they have the adults full attention. They are so young and most have not been jaded by the real world. I know when I was younger I could always tell what teachers liked me and what teachers didn't just by their tone of voice when they were speaking to me. And also in the way that they went about teaching. Ralph Fletcher talks about students being able to pick up on those teachers that don't like to teach, and don't like children at all. I think that as adults we can learn from children to just listen to those around us and tune into how we talk to one another. If we relate to each other in a personal manner then our students will learn from our examples just like we should learn from them on how to survey our surroundings.