Personal Narrative: My Experience Of Working With Small Children

This past summer, I worked as a cashier for two local swimming pools in my hometown. The primary patrons of these aquatic facilities are children - either with their parents or with various summer camps (Boys and Girls Club, church camps, etc.). This was my first genuine exposure to working with children, and though I was apprehensive at first, as the summer went on I became more comfortable interacting with

Like many people everyone wants to find their calling and figure out where they belong. My parents moved to the United States risking their lives on a boat from Haiti but soon separated while in america . My mom did a great job raising four kids on her own and I being the second child took part in raising my two younger siblings. In elementary school I struggled in many subjects but excelled in art, when I finally learned to read and went to middle school my grades were high enough to have honors reading and social study classes and even apa classes in highschool. I continued to excel in a lot of my classes, turns out I was smarter than I thought and all I need to do was learn to read and have people who took the time to teach me.

Maybe I was too little, or maybe I was too short, but either way I did not make the jump. In the second grade I was your average eight year old, who always wore her hair in ponytails, and enjoyed playing tag at recess. One day I saw the fifth graders on the monkey bars at recess doing something I had never seen before, they were jumping to the fourth bar. I waited untill Kids Inc. that day to try the jump, but it was no use I was acting like a scared baby.

Anais brought her daughter, Ana, to the Houston newborn photography studio today. These two had one of my favorite sessions between parent and child. They were so connected and playful. They were like best friends who love each other's company.

Working with children is a very rewarding and sometime can be a testing experience. During My comprehensive hands-on experience in the childcare center I chose to work with the one year old classroom. Working with the one year olds were challenging but interesting.

This is probably by far the hardest course I have taken in the last two years, but I am proud to say I didn’t give up. There was a lot to be learned in a short amount of time as well as learning how to use other programs on the computer. I have gained more knowledge in learning the two new programs this semester.

Working with children is an amazing and fun job to have, however there could be some drawback to it too just like any other job. I had no idea what I was getting into when I signed up for this class especially the lab. The only experience I 've had with children before this class was watching my nephew and nieces for a few hours. This class gave me the opportunity to get the experience in a classroom full of children. I got to experience children in their best days and children in their worst days and of course what it was like to work in a classroom full of children. But I also learned a lot about how every child may has had different experiences in life, and the way they behave may be because of those experiences the’ve had and the environment they grew up in.

My parents would describe infant me as adventurous,happy,full of energy. When I was younger I had a habit of crawling out of the crib and opening doors and my have tried to invite the mail man in a few times. When I was just learning to walk I would always open the front door when the mailman came or when my grandma thought I had ran away because I had opened multiple doors in the house and later found me playing in the backyard and later would by door knob locks to keep me from opening the doors, I believe I may have been 3 or 4 years old at the time. My favorite stuffed animal was this light brown monkey with a darker face, brown marble eyes that my mom had gotten me when she took me to the Toledo zoo when I was 4 years old I used to take

I have limited experience working with children. I have tutored children from my neighborhood and family members. I would help them out with their homework and prepare for exams, in social studies, reading, and some math. Tutoring included having discussions with the students, parents, and teachers to figure out what material to go over. After these discussions, I created assingments and study guides to help the students, out of the tutoring

While I am very proud of my research in high energy particle physics, my work with underprivileged children in Malden, Massachusetts is something I am far more proud of. The children I work with come from a very unstable household, many of them come from houses where spousal abuse is frequent. Furthermore, a lot of these children come from a family with severe financial issues. Every Thursday I tutor one of the children, although many of them are self sufficient and highly capable students, there are a few that struggle with their work and learning.

I always loved working with kids, but I always felt a certain way when I got the chance to work with kids who had some sort of special needs. I don’t know what it was I just felt happier when I got the chance to help someone who could not help them self. So when I saw the job posting for a house parent at the New Haven home for kids with special needs I jumped on it.

I am a volunteer at the Inpatient Pediatric Child Life Center, located in MedStar Georgetown University Hospital. My job is to keep the children, who are staying in the hospital, company. I read books to them, play games with them, or watch television with them. In addition, I have to help keep the play room clean. I make sure to keep all the books and toys organized, as well as making sure to sanitize the toys used.

I have had several experiences working with children, most of them volunteering. I have helped 2nd graders practice reading, 7th graders write research papers, and 12th graders with auto-ethnographies. I also spent time tutoring in the Muncie community, the center received a variety of students in middle and high school that needed help in all kinds of subjects from English, to Math, to science.

Every day at school working with kindergarten children filled with lesson’s around the student’s interest, passions, and abilities. We as educators recognize when our student is falling behind in learning, so with taking advantage of every teachable moment imagine how far the student could go in this world. In my eleven years working with kindergarten children, I have had experience working children with ADHD. They run around or climb, have trouble paying attention to a task for more than a few minutes, not seem to listen when spoken to, and easily distracted, and don’t follow instructions no matter how clearly you present them.

As I begin my internship at Playhouse Cooperative Nursery. It is important for me to analyze my character in order to know where I need to make changes from within. Additionally, it is important to remember my strengths in character as a way to help and guide me towards success throughout the course of the internship and the seminar. For the majority of people it not easy to acknowledge the faults and strengths in their characters because they do not wish to be seen as too weak or too cocky. I for one had this mentality for most of my young adult years before I realized that I dramatically needed to make changes in my attitude and in my lifestyle. I suppose this realization has added to my overall self-awareness, which I think will be beneficial