My love for children

Often I am asked sometimes by my own family:

"How can you do all that stuff with kids?"

Some ask me why I do it.

For some it is hard to understand.

For me it is just because I completely love kids.

I cannot pass a child without touching their head

or hugging and kissing them if I know them.

Heck one day I was eating out with baby boy, baby girl,

and Kd and a child passed and I completely lost my

train of thought to stop and talk to that child.

A child I did not even know.

There is something about being around a child

and seeing the world through their eyes that I find

so amazing.

I have this gift of being able to relate to all children

no matter what their ages, of speaking to them

in a language that they can understand.

This is most definitely a gift and one I get to use

daily in my job. I can go from holding a sick 4 year old

until their parent gets there to giving tough-love

to an 11 year old who is bullying.

I do believe I have had many life experiences so that

I can share these experiences with children so

they can feel like I get them and I do share

personal stories with them.

As for my great nieces and nephews

my heart swells when I just think of them.

It doesn't matter if it is those that I see and spend

time with often or those that I talk of but don't

get to see that much. My heart swells just the same.

I see potential in each child, even those who seem

simply lost to the world.

There are those days like on Thursday when

my job finds me burned out with the fact that

5th grade girls would prefer talking to me about

periods and lice rather than speak to their own Mom's.

Telling me that their Mom's don't believe them, that

their Mom's aren't around for them to ask those

important questions. Yes, I am glad I am there to

help children yet I feel with my heart for those

who do not have a good relationship with their parents.

There is not a day that goes by that I don't smile

or laugh by something a child does, whether it be my family

or my school family yet there are also many days

that I am sorry for children.

Do not know if I would want the responsibility

of raising children in this world of today.

I see the future in all children.

So whenever I call and ask for your child,

don't thank me. You see I do it for my own

selfish reasons, I love spending time with children.

Being able to send them home when I am done

is an added bonus :^)