I just love kids. Most people do. Most people do, for one reason or another. How can you not? There are so many reasons to love them. For one, they remind us from where we came. Not one person on the planet has ever NOT been a child. Interesting, huh? Yet it's such a short chunk of time if our lives, and yet the most crucial. I think that's why I love childhood so much. We're the most vulnerable in our early years. Everything in our environment during our childhood shapes our future. It's a jewel worth protecting. Deep in my heart, I know I am called to help protect these treasures.
From about the age of eight, I have been working with children. The youngest of four, I never had a little sibling of my own. So I made my next door neighbors into my little brother and sister, or you could call them my pupils. I taught Darcie, whom I knew from the time she was 2 until I moved many years later, how to tell and write stories, put on plays, swim, ride a bike, add, etc.. was a teacher, camp counselor, tutor, children's director, caretaker, after school worker, and now I'm a stay-at-home mom (the hardest occupation yet!) It's true that I have been working with kids my entire life, even since I was one myself, making my next-door neighbor my personal pupil at the age of eight. But there are many things about them that intrigue me to the core. And that's what I want to write about here.
The older i get (I'm nearly 33), the more dreamy I get when I look into their eyes, study their hands, or marvel at their responses to the world. I just want to list all the things that I admire about kids, have learned from kids, and skills I am still acquiring that, in my mind, most children already possess.
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