Personal Narrative: My Experience Of Working With Young Children

The book, Raiders Night by Robert Lipsyte was a very different book compared to other 9th grade books. While you guys might feel that your gonna read how a guy gets a scholarship and wins a championship but this book proves that not every sports book is the same. If you go to the library, and pick any book off the shelf. I doubt you’ll find one involving drugs and steroids. At the same time it was a great book, I loved the intensity on how Matt has everything he needs but now needs to learn how to put away his distractions and stay focused. For me it was very easy to relate in life, I was never the big guy that everyone knew. I was just there for football nothing else. I liked the book a lot because of its intensity, its interesting organization of the book, and it's way how the formed the characters.

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“Advice, like youth, probably wasted on the young” is the actual title of a column featured in the Chicago Tribune that has become a legend, commonly known as the commencement speech entitled, “Wear Sunscreen”. Mary Schmich’s now infamous words were first published by the Tribune on June 1, 1997. They were subsequently, albeit inaccurately, attributed to the notorious author, Kurt Vonnegut, for his alleged address at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduation. This is one of the first instances of something to “go viral” as it circulated through the early internet, primarily via email (Caro). Those same words made their way to Australian movie director Baz Luhrmann, who in a collaborative effort, put them to music in a song titled, “Everybody’s Free (to wear Sunscreen)” which made it all the way to number 45 on Billboard’s Hot 100 list in April of 1999 (Billboard).

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.

It was hour four. I glanced at the tiny digital clock on the dusty, outdated, desktop computer. “Five minutes left in free play!” I yelled over the jumbled sound of Mario Kart, xylophones and freeze dance. The daycare had almost a club atmosphere at this point as muffled dance music blasted through the speakers; the only partition between the high-energy fitness center and us was a thin wall of glass, littered with sticky handprints. There were currently thirty children ranging from ages 3 to 12 and it was up to me my coworker to watch all of them, do payments and update the roster. She was busy with the infants, leaving me to take care of everything else. Much like a general getting ready for war, I prepared myself. Sometimes, the room would have up to 40 kids in it at once, so I had to be an authoritarian. I knew I had it in me; I had practice using my voice working at the preschool.

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.

The Middle Tyger Community Center’s volunteer coordinator, Donna Dawkins, was very excited about my interest to volunteer with their This is My Child early education program. She was able to work me into the agency’s busy schedule and was also super understanding of my packed agenda and limited time. My first volunteer experience I spent in the one year old classroom. The teachers have a routine based schedule that is performed every day. Each student is to be dropped off, find their assign seat, eat breakfast, throw away their OWN trash, and then wait their turn for their health check. When their name is called, each of the children know what they are expected to do. He or she comes to the sink, brushes their teeth, and climbs up to the changing

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.

I was a responsible seven year old, I would say, considering my mother trusted me enough to leave me in charge of my sister as a toddler when I was still a child. This was not the first time I was in charge of my sister for a short amount of time, so nobody thought anything of it. In these twenty minutes, things took a turn for the worse when I made a simple but tragic mistake; I went to the bathroom for around two minutes, at the most. I heard Mia screaming, and so my sisterly, protective instincts kicked in.

Children are often known as being outspoken and active. They are raised to become the leaders for the following generations; however, unlike most children, I was very reserved and soft-spoken. Ever since I was a child, I never took the initiative to confront someone when I needed help. However, all of this changed the summer before junior year.

As, I continue on this journey to become an early childcare educator. I have established a firm belief that every child is unique! I also realize that not every child develops in the same manner as the next. The main goals educators should strive for is to provide guidance, support, and willingness to teach families on advocating for children as well as helping themselves when it come to their additional needs to support their families. I truly believe that my desire to help children and families grow as a unit is essential part of being an educator. By introducing parents to all the different resources that North Carolina has to offer when it comes to not only educational assistance/ support but personal resources also. Opening their eyes

Since August of my junior year, I have worked with third graders in language development students came to me when they needed help or someone to talk to. R.O.P Occupations with Young Children taught me leadership skills and how to build strong relationships with students who went to me for guidance. I assisted students in System 44, a program designed to help students who were below grade level in their reading and writing skills. Each student was required to read a book followed by filling out a reading log. This is where I came in to help. Most students were unable to read correctly; ordinarily they had no understanding of the reading. While the students were working on their reading log, I was often beside them, giving them ideas and advice about answers to questions about the book. There were moments in which students did not know the definition of a word or the pronunciation; they called me to help them. A student named Luis would always raise his hand and had me go through the book with him.

At the end of Year 10 I completed my work experience at the Monash Children’s Hospital. Although I mostly observed, on the first day, simply seeing a list of emergency numbers ordered from interns, registrars, residents and finally surgeons to call made me realise the long, hard road to reaching my goals. Along with grasping an idea of the time commitment the career involves in the work hours and the level of experience, I also saw snapshots of the highly stressful situations in the hospitals of doctors and nurses frantically running towards the wards in a code blue situations. I have also seen patients under critical conditions, screaming out and refusing treatment. However what I remember most from my time there was the way the doctors

]There was this one where I was volunteering with little kids in a program that I was involved with at the time. I was on probation while I was doing this, so I felt like if I can tell them to do right , I would at least teach them a path to success instead of failure. I went to,¨Jerome Center¨, located here in Santa Ana to help these kids with school activities, arts and crafts, sports and many more activities. I was like a mentor to them because there was like 3 teenagers in total. I would talk to them the most because might as well make my time useful and get to know how these kids were. Some were very loud and annoying being little kids that is, but a few were very quiet and shy and I liked talking to them because there character was a complete opposite from the louder ones. Either way I ended up knowing all their names and how each of them was. There were supervisors there too, too help us with any problems we had so it made me feel more comfortable and relaxed.

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