Did you notice that I have not been blogging about my work? Not much nice things for me to blog, that’s why I stopped. Really, I just want to keep these blog entries to be something that will remind me of the happy times at work and not the bad stuff.

When 2010 kicked in, I have more kids in my class – more like having crying babies in my class. As the kids are new to the environment, they tend to look for their mummies, daddies or aunties. They look at you like some monster and keep running away from you. I think the little children need this thing called “Trust”. They first must trust you in order for them to listen to you.

You really need to go down to the kids’ world and try to understand them. It’s really challenging this year. When the new kids start to cry, cant sit still, they influence those “old birds” in the class. Like if the new kids start to run around, the “old birds” will be influenced and run around. Class was chaotic.

This is what I observed about kids after 2 months here in my class.

Different types of kids
1) Obedient Kid – They really listen to you 100%.
2) Little Teacher Kid – Nah.. they are not teacher’s pet. Kids whom I described as “little teacher” are people who can help you control the class. They are like prefect of the class. One example is Jie Ni. When the kid is running around, I will ask Jie Ni to go to the kid to tell him to sit down. Cute right? She’s only 2+ years old.
3) Sticky Pad Kid – Sticky Pad kids are kids who will listen to you but will stick you like sticky pad. Wherever you go, they follow. They want your 100% attention. They can be cute but they can be a bit irritating sometime. For example, when the other kids are running around and I need to tell them off, Sticky Pad kids will grab your hand, hug you. It’s sort of like an obstruction to you especially there are kids who really need your attention.
4) “Big Bully” Kid – They are violent kids in the class. Tend to bully people. What will happen if two violent kids come together? They will “fight” with each other. Luckily my kids are not that violent to the extent that they will slap, punch each other.
5) Petty Kid – They are kids who will “dont friend” with you if you scold them. Sounds familiar? It’s a common term that we used when we were young. But the funny thing is that the kid who “dont friend” you will come come to hug you like mad(like sticky pad kids) after throwing their tantrum.

Last week, I had a really bad day at work. I really hate people to misunderstand me, and that’s why it made me moody. I think it affected my whole mood of teaching and everything didnt seem to run smoothly. Today during my psychology class, Iasked my friend for advice. I felt better after talking to her. And on my way back from school, God gave me this divine chance to meet Calyn on the bus. I started to tell her what I felt about my work and she really guided me and I felt much much better after that. I wanted to take the bus back home (like what I normally do) but then took the train back with Calyn. After our conversation, I found out that it is very important to take captive of every thought and not let our emotions to figure out things happening in our lives. We should lean on God’s understanding and not ours.

I humbly took in the words Calyn told me, and told myself to accept with an open heart to people who misunderstood me.

Before my work, I really prayed very hard very hard. I went to the childcare centre and kept reminding myself to be humble, teachable. My principal gave me an assignment to do. She wants me to give the kids intensive reading etc. So, I tried out the “experiment” with the first group of kids. After that, I got a chance to talk to one of the teachers to ask her what should I do when the class gets noisy, chaotic.

And.. I had a fall on my back. Cause one of my kids came when I was not aware and then came and hug me. He just ran towards me, banged and hugged me.. Gosh.. Can he be more gentle? :p

After work, told my principal that I need to take a break to prepare for my prelims and exams. The conclusion is that I’ll need to come back at least twice per day during my study break. I cannot entirely stop cause if i stop, it will be hard for me to bond with the kids again.

Alrightx, today is a brand new start of everything. Pray for me that I will always have a humble and teachable heart.