The Power of Dominos

I used this short video today while talking with a Kindergarten student who had hurt another child. It turned out, not surprisingly, that there were a whole series of events that occurred before the culminating incident, and I was thinking about how to show, and not just tell, the child both the impact of his decision-making, and the idea of escalation. The concreteness of the dominos effectively helped the child understand that a small decision can lead to another decision can lead to another decision etc, and that the way to avoid knocking down the dominos is to make a different decision at the beginning.