What is YOUR Super Power?? Could it be AWESOME?

My five year old thinks EVERYONE has superpowers.  Luke is one of the slowest runners in his preschool class.  In his mind however, speed is just ONE of his handful of superpowers.  He also claims to know BEFORE the day begins if it will be a good day or not. (This is predicting the FUTURE.)  Recently, he told me that being nice WASN'T his superpower.  It was "hard" to be nice all the time.  My reply?  "Luke, you are correct, nice isn't a superpower.  Nice is an EXPECTATION."

My eight year old thinks her brother is ridiculous.  "Nobody HAS superpowers,"she says.  "Superpowers are NOT real, buddy.  Nobody can save the world like they do.  Superpowers are just pretend."

My questions today are:
When does the hope inside us die?  When do we stop believing we can do ANYTHING we want to change the world? When do children as young as my 3rd graders think they are too small, not smart enough, not powerful enough to have ideas that can touch people in positive ways?

The idea of superpowers is pretend obviously - but the hope in changing the world doesn't have to be - does it?

When my kids came back from Christmas Break we watched one of my all time favorite uplifting message entitled "A Pep Talk from Kid President."  The child himself is a special child.  I didn't want to focus on that for my kids.  I wanted them to hear his message.  I wanted to see if he could inspire them to be AWESOME.  Please take the time to watch this message and think about it.   My classroom has.  We will post more on the topic of AWESOME.  Enjoy!

http://youtu.be/l-gQLqv9f4o