3 Months with a Group of Children can Change Your Life

I just got done with my first 3 months with the children at my job. WAIT! I JUST SENT MY CHILDREN FROM MY MINISTRY OFF WITH MORE WISDOM OF WHAT IS OUT THERE THAT THEY CAN DO AND HAVE A BETTER LIFE! These past 3 months of changed my life, if not more, at least as much as the children I took care of.  I learned about what is really out there and more of what is around me. I'm not just thinking of myself anymore. I'm learning new ways to take care of the children depending of what they had to deal with before coming in. I'm working with all type of children. I'm becoming more creative as the days go on. It's not really at all about me though it is about the children and what they have learned and how they have changed. It is neat to see that within 3 months a child really can change if you will care for them and let them know that you do. Just knowing every little thing you do can change the child for the good or bad so you have to be on your feet and know what you are doing and love on those children when you don't feel like it. You can't have or show stress or madness at all. Every child as their own way to deal with things and you have to meet those ways but at the same time for me it is fun to see how they change over the months because of us. It gives me a sense of pride and that I am important in someone's life. You can't get caught up in the "fairness" (saying I got from someone at work, love it) of just one or most of the children and coming from a teacher's side too that is what is wrong in today's public schools. We have children coming from all over the place and from very different situtations not one thing will work for all the children. Some might need one on one while the others might feel fine with other children. They might be too hurt or scared to be with the others. They might not feel both emaitonally and pysically the same way as the others. There are tons of sickness and problems out there for children that we do not know about or very little yet. As I keeping working, I see that we need to teach even in public schools these days sel-help so the children know how because sadly they aren't getting it at home and as teachers and caretakers and everything else we all know that. We need to teach them to make their own deisons again. Teach them that they care have a say in some things and have their voice heard because they aren't getting it heard right now. It is sad when some children won't use their words or don't know how to talk because they are scared what will happen to them if they say anything. It is hard to explain what I feel right now because I'm still learning more and will have to research more but I'm on a road that I never thought I would be and I love it! I'm a teacher's kid so learning along with children are my passions. I just hope I can remember all of what I am learning with every child and/or set of children. I'm sure God will give me new things to learn with each new group of children. Not sure what this one was yet but when I found out I will right about it and I'm ready to see what the next thing He is going to teach me will be.