Little Life stories

Little life stories..... Do you know that those who are teachers are a big part of that ?  Of a child's life story ? Just think about how important that is ?  So much more than just a job.  Everyday we have these little ones come into our class that look to us for approval, for acceptance, for comfort.  These little kids come into our classrooms as a little open book at the very beginning of their life.story. Each and every day we make decisions that affect their story forever.  I think sometimes its so easy to forget just what we mean in their lives.  I think its forgotten just what we mean to those little lives that we love during our day.

This time next year, I will be done with all my classes, student teaching will be over and I will be looking for a job or maybe hopefully already have a job ( please, please, please, PLEASE)  There are so many reasons why that is super amazingly cool and over the top exciting.  Wow I haven't even really started writing and here come the tears.  Because I know with my entire heart that I am supposed to be a teacher.  I do not know many things for sure in my life but this is one of them. I was meant to teach.  I am sure I will cry those first days in my own class, and even the days that follow.  I was meant to hold those little hearts in my room for the day and make them proud of themselves and the work that they do.  Each child will be so very worthy from the second that they come into my class.  I was meant to make them feel safe and sound and to cherish and nurture their little souls with all that I am.  I will get the privilege to care for them, teach them and help them as each of their little stories are written.  Really how cool is that ?  People say oh just wait .... And I say OK.  I am more than ready.  I am sure there are going to be rough days and rough children and even harder parents but in the end for me its about the kids.  Its about showing them the good things in life. Its about showing them how special that they are in each and every way.  I will get to teach them about all the cool things around them even math because someday Algebra just might be important, not sure yet but maybe !?!  I am going to get to share about all the amazing things around them.  I will show them kindness and teach how very important that it is in the world.  I can not think of anything more important than caring for those little hearts that I will have in my class.

I TOTALLY love children, they are kind of amazing when you really think about it.  I remember my kids first grade conference and saying something about my kids and how they weren't doing something, that I thought they should be.  And their wonderful teacher Mrs. Bell said "Well they have only been around for 6 short years you know ?"And I stopped for a minute, wow, how true is that ?  Think about it.....

These little ones have only been around for a short time and have so much to learn in so many areas.  It's our job to help them with ;to guide them.  Oh I just love their little hearts their innocence, their laughter, I love that they think they are invincible, I love how funny they can be, or how funny they "think" they are, and that can be anything they imagine.  So for a minute just think....6 years?  That doesn't seem like very long at all.  So we must be patient, and kind and repeat directions over and over and teach kindness and love and respect because they have only been in this world a very short time.

I was never a kid that got to do any of those things and I think that is part of why its so very important to me now and the kids that I teach.  I want to be able to give the things that I never got.  I will take such good care of their hearts because its the only one that they will ever have.  We can help it grow and make it beautiful or we need to find another job.  I will always stop for the crying little one in the hall, that needs some extra TLC.  I will always work with that hard to love kid who gets on your very last nerve.  I will try to answer the one who has a question for everything.  I will love the kid that is different; because I was that kid.  Believe me, I know there are those kids that annoy and pester and get on those last nerves but I will end each day letting them know that regardless of absolutely anything... anything at all that they are special and amazing in so many ways.

I think I totally come at teaching from a different angle;  it was never what I imagined myself doing.  I was going to school for  Psychology, well child psychology because honestly you can have the adults, my heart is for the kids.  The more that I got into it I realized that I was going to be dealing with the "PARENTS" and knew that was going to be the hard part.  I wanted to help kids feel all the good things in life that I never did.  I wanted kids to be able to play and be free and feel worthy of all that this crazy world has to offer.  I come into teaching knowing all the things I so desperatly needed but never got, and wanting to be able to make a difference.

Well things got sidetracked, I pressed charges on my father, testified in Boston, had Vincent and Mariska , things were CRAZY, totally crazy.  I don't remember even really changing my major it just happened.  Once I went back to school when the kids were close to three I knew that teaching was my home, my  heart and exactly where I needed to be.  And here I am that being closer than ever, and it's so VERY exciting.  I have a huge responsibility to my children, but to all those little life stories that I will get to be a part of.  I see teaching as a privilege and I look forward to seeing how all those little life stories progress and how I can make them better.

So to all the children that will be in my class I so look forward to meeting you and seeing what I can do to make your story something wonderfully amazing.