I babysit for a few hours a night on Thursdays. I love it. Today I went to get a few of the kids and their mom told me that they were so excited that they were coming to play with me. (This is my second week to watch them.) I told her it was because I was a child too. I have to admit it was pretty wonderful walking into the room and having two little faces light up at seeing me...
All told there were five of them. Ranging from ages 4 to 11. We ran around the playground while the sun was still up. There were a few incidents where I had to use "the voice" to tell them to stop throwing rocks, but other than that, outside was good.
It was a night of teaching for me...Inside I taught Kaitlin how to fold a card in half, cut it and make a heart. She told me I was "perfect at cutting hearts." I politely thanked her. She's a very polite seven-year-old herself. I read her a story about Noah's ark and I told her about how rainbows are signs of God's promises. Then I taught Philip how to make a paper airplane, he's five. I think he'll be an architect one day because he can build the greatest things with legos.
With Shiela I make up math questions because Math is her favorite subject...And then I was greeted with a "hi mommy, I made you breakfast." It was Conner, age 4, and he'd made me a breakfast of eggs and a cup of coffee...All plastic of course...He's got quite an imagination on him...They all do come to think of it...
All told there were five of them. Ranging from ages 4 to 11. We ran around the playground while the sun was still up. There were a few incidents where I had to use "the voice" to tell them to stop throwing rocks, but other than that, outside was good.
It was a night of teaching for me...Inside I taught Kaitlin how to fold a card in half, cut it and make a heart. She told me I was "perfect at cutting hearts." I politely thanked her. She's a very polite seven-year-old herself. I read her a story about Noah's ark and I told her about how rainbows are signs of God's promises. Then I taught Philip how to make a paper airplane, he's five. I think he'll be an architect one day because he can build the greatest things with legos.
With Shiela I make up math questions because Math is her favorite subject...And then I was greeted with a "hi mommy, I made you breakfast." It was Conner, age 4, and he'd made me a breakfast of eggs and a cup of coffee...All plastic of course...He's got quite an imagination on him...They all do come to think of it...
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Kids just seem to know who really cares for them and who doesn't. You mentioned you were still a kid - same here, a very old kid, but a kid nonetheless. ec
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