This Is How Your Children Are Treated.

The importance of early childhood care from an All-American preschool substitute.

She was cute.

It seems the same to me.

I had an amazing childhood, of two years to be exact, a sweet strawberry scented world filled with butterflies… later on to find out the harsh truth of life by myself, I shall explore that ground later in another post.

It only hit me when I began participating in the education industry that most of us are just trying to make a living. The state of their students and how they turn out merely crosses any teachers’ minds, not that I know of, and….I don’t want to be like that.

While I understand the frustration that kids nowadays present, I do believe there is still hope out there, as I went into the cram school business with my co-workers laughing at my enthusiasm.

Every now and then I turn to myself when I’m in class. I look at the teachers, how they’re teaching. It “Is’’ a way of presenting something, something they learnt, that might be their passion. However, in the process of teaching your passion, there’s always gonna be a time where you have to teach something that you don’t like(not to mention your students), how do you make it interesting for yourself and the eyes gazing up at you with complete trust? Or should I say, how do you execute your strategy of getting your point through clearly without having your own dream and passion destroyed?

The vivid memory of seeing this new art teacher in middle school who was caught crying after no one paid attention to her on her first day of class, the scene plays over and over in my mind, so is this incident that occurred in a preschool I worked at as a substitute. A boy teasing a girl, to the extent where she was crying, just for the teacher to say “Just don’t bother, it’s her who’s giving him attention by “reacting”. Exact words that came out of a pregnant preschool teacher’s mouth.

Immediately a piece of string inside me broke.

(Papertown, John Green)

That reminds me of Taylor Swift’s woman of the year speech where she said ‘A man is allowed to react. A woman can only overreact’.

Remind me why I adore her sassy-ness.

This reminded me of my childhood.

I believe not only family backgrounds affect a person into becoming who they are but also the people that’s in their life since the early days.

I also recall this little boy from this All-American preschool I worked at, walking around sticking out his chest as if he was strong enough to fight, instantly you would think where he had learnt that from, possibly the father figure in his life…the early child care/education…*sigh*

A different boy, not the one sticking out his chest. But you can imagine how he might grow up to be. fyi

Pursuing a different education system surely doesn’t help with ones who remain stubborn with their actions in front of their child.

You could tell he’s a little naughty.

It’s all the same

I don’t aspire to become such parents.