my precious darlings...

My 1st week....
Day1 - My thoughts...now I know why Esther do not want to have a child so early :) playing and spending a full day with a kid or a dozen of them is not what I thought it was all about. Adoring them for a few mins or at most few hours does not equate knowing what is like having one or knowing them. Now I understood why new parents or even my own brother who never complains of being tired says that he is tired now because my nephew sleeps on him and climbs everywhere. My old job I sit too much, now I hardly get to sit! I went home feeling like I've work a whole week!
Day 2 - Help was needed with the younger ones from 14months to 18 months, so I was transferred over to help them. So instead of working with the 2 to 3years old who are less whiny and active,  I now have to bear a child crying almost every 5 mins. Then I understood why my Principal asked me during my interview if I could take babies crying. Without much thought to it, I happily said yes. She said that this experience would help me in my practicum in the future. ok...=)
Day 3 - I find myself helpless with the child. I asked one of the teachers how they come out with the ideas of playing with the child. She told me they learn from them sometimes. How true when I observed them longer. ie. putting a bean bag on their head and dropping it brings a smile to their face. Putting the bin over my head makes them laugh and try it themselves. The first day I wonder if they understood what I said, but now I never do question that cause being around them long enough shows you that they do. Even the way they cry...I've learnt to pick up if it's just a fake tantrum throwing moments or a real one. MOST of the time it's just for attention heh...I went home with a feeling of love attached to them. Not so tiring anymore...
Day 4 - My boss needed my help with the 4 to 18 months now! Why is it getting younger...I like older ones. More helpless. haha. They cant even say a single word. Their only mode of communication is to cry if they are unhappy. Playing with them is altogether different.
Day 5 - I realised that even as young as they are as a baby of 4 months old, it feels like I have 'known' them. Their temperaments, what they like and dislike...even in their NIL vocabulary, I seem to be able to communicate with them thru play, feeding, patting them to sleep. Simply their pattern. It's really interesting to spent a full day with a child. On my first day, the aunty told me she had been working for more than ten years with the toddlers, I never did understood why...but the joy and the warmth feeling I carried home with me each day, helps me to know why they stayed on. I understood why a mum who's child is adopted came in today for the first time find it hard to separate from her child. Children leaves a fingerprint in your heart when you spent time with them. Age does not matter after all...=)