“I have come to a frightening conclusion. I am the decisive element in the classroom. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher I possess tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated, and a child humanized.” Dr Haim G. Ginott.
I look at this quote everyday before I go to work. It is my reminder of exactly why I work with kids what power I possess and what a difference I can make, on that note... Reflection time is a childcare workers best friend. I think that the person who decided that kids need a nap in the middle of the day was genius… ok maybe not but we all need a break, seeing as I am feeling horrid today and have been wanting to sock someone all day… nap time is a necessity.
Childcare is difficult because no matter how horrid your day is how shitty you feel you must leave everything at the door once you walk in. children are delicate creatures and sense any emotion… so I have become a rather good actress… pretending everything is alright when really it is not.
About Me
- me
- Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
- Pablo Neruda Sonnet XVII (100 Love Sonnets, 1960) I don't love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul. I love you as the plant that doesn't bloom and carries hidden within itself the light of those flowers, and thanks to your love, darkly in my body lives the dense fragrance that rises from the earth. I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where, I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I don't know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep it is your eyes that close "Nothing in the world is the way it ought to be. It's harsh, and cruel, but that's why there's us. It doesn't matter where we come from, or what we've done, or suffered, or even if we make a difference. We live as though the world were as it should be, to show it what it can be." --Angel
