Education is Me

         "Who am I" is a question that I have been asking myself a lot lately.  I really feel like I don't fit in anything. I'm not the business type or the married type. I'm not the missionary type or the outgoing type. Something happened today that made me realize, kind of more of, who I am. I have been praying for God to show me that in ways and I think today was one of His ways. I had a lot of people at work comment me on the education part of me. How I love to educate the children and make sure they get that education. It was very because there was 5 people there and all of them said something about education. I even told me that the children talked and showed my projects to them every night.
           After that happened, I got to thinking maybe they do need me here for the education part. Maybe I can start really looking something up for the type of children I work with. If there isn't anything out there, maybe I can write something up and/or go to grad school and get a Master's in education and curriculum? Here I go thinking about another thing, you might be thinking of me, but it is true. I love to write, learn, and I am very detailed down to the very point of what I'm talking about. I love children or young people up til 5th grade. I love to observe the children and see what they really need.
            I started to look on the web to see if I can find anything that I might suggested to some people and there are some things out there if you look. A few things but they are still things we can look into and maybe try. It might be for the homeless other then the abused but it might work or we could change it up a little for it to work for us.
            Then I got started thinking, "how neat would it be to start my own curriculum for abused/homeless preschoolers and children?". Why didn't I see this all before? I do love education and when it comes down to it, I can be creative if needed. I also love to be organized and plan things out. If I wasn't able to do that, then I have no idea where I would be or what I would be like. Those are some of the things that I just enjoy doing and am good at. Now it might sound boring to some of you but when you get to be creative with it like start something of your own, it could be fun. You never know what you could make up.
              My background has a lot to do with education like I say all the time "I grew up in an educational family". My parents were involved in schools and now my siblings are somehow involved in schools or with children at least. Education is a HUGE part of me especially for the preschool and younger ages because having all those classes in college helped me to understand that 5 and under are the most important years of learning. If there is one thing that I remember my college teachers stressing that fact was it.
               I was also taught some before my Kindertgarden year at home. I was taught how to write my letters and my name. I was taught how to color and the "use to be" basics before starting school. I was taught how to cut and glue and some of the children I work with have no idea how to do any of that and they are 5 years old. If no one teaches them, then they are going to get behind developmentally and we don't want that at all. They will never get caught up if they are taught things in their early years.
                Education is me and I should probably do something with that for the rest of my life. Now the question is "What?" and "How?" because there are a lot of ways and things you could be teaching. I could still be doing OT and be teaching them how to get through daily life or teach them the school basics and help them get through life that way. It just depends. Do I want to be involved with their mental and emotional state of being or their physical state of being?