Being Around Children Never Gets Boring

            I have been in the childcare field for about 10 years. This calendar year (2017) has been full of surprises and new happenings for me. It seems so strange but it is really the first year I have dealt with elementary aged children for a whole year. Up til now I have taught or babysat infants and toddlers and it has been fun and a lot less injuries and mistakes. This calendar year I have had a school building window broken on my watch and now since this past week a broken arm on my watch. I know these things just happen because us teachers can't be everywhere at once but it still upsets me a little bit. Knowing my heart and my perfectionism, I hate it when I mess anything up especially a child or a school building.
           But having these experiences now will sort of make having my own children a little bit easier. I don't want to say that it will make it easier for sure because I don't know how that feels just yet but I have thought a lot about it this week. With a broken arm or a broken window, everything could go both ways. I'm glad I had the experience before I had children because now it might not be so bad because it isn't the first time that has happened to me, even though it is my child. Yet again, it is my child so it might be a little scary. I was talking to my mom on the phone and she said that little children especially boys do things that will injury themselves a lot. Looking back at all my nieces and nephews, it is true yet I never really thought about it.
            You do feel sorry for, say in my case right now, a niece or nephew but you feel even more bad for another child you are taking care of. When it is your child, you know you can't blame anyone else but yourself depending on where it happens. When a child gets hurt a school with you as the teacher. and with the parents these days, you never know how they are going to react against you. It just tends to scare you more as a teacher or care taker. Yet how my life is going right now, I am experiencing these things first so I won't be too surprised when it happens to my children. I mean the child this past week broke his arm because he was dared to jump out of a swing by a friend. Those children were just being typically boys. Now I know to expect that and things like that when I have my own boys.
            I should of expected it when I have been told over and over about my big brother jumping off the deck trying to be "Underdog". Children just want to fit in and use their imagination. We can't punish or do anything out of the blue with that. We can't even blame the teachers because they have no control of what children are thinking. They are learning right along with them at times. I mean every teacher told the boy that broken his arm over and over to not jump out of the swing but did he listen no. It could have happened on any teacher's watch. I was just the lucky one that it happened on. It will be really interesting when I have my own children. I mean I have been around children for 10 years and still don't have my own. I might be that tough it out mom because I have seen it all or at least will have by then if things keep going the way they are right now.
            The little boy was back Friday and yes he did break it at a 45 degree angle right below the elbow. He won't be at school Monday because he is going in to the drs. to either get a hard cast or see if he needs surgery. You know what, though, too. I should have know it might have broken. I mean if a little push could break a wrist bone then what could jumping out of the swing do to a child. Yes, I had my wrist broken because I was just pushed down on the living room floor and I was in 4th grade when that happened. This little boy is in 1st grade. My was sister teasing sister. It is about as bad as a friend daring another friend. Lesson learned early in the year for me. It has been a crazy year already and it just started. I am ready for it to end already. Is that bad?
              Anyways, I am surprised that I wrote a lot because this was just going to be a memory entry for me but turned out to be a lesson too. That is why it is so long or about the same length as all the others. The lesson is that: no matter how long you are around children, being around them never gets boring. There is always something you can learn from them and if you are not learning, you are on your toes watching their every move or at least trying to, at the very least.