What More Canst I do for Thou?

This is probably day 235. I have been working at this day care thing for about 7 and a half months now. I did finished the certificate and mailed it in. I suppose that will take a while to get back. When I do I am going to ask for a raise. I make a whole 7 bucks an hour. I am going to ask for a fifty dollar raise. These day care kids are horrible. I mean bad. All five year old boys. But I sometimes get girls from other classes and omigod. What is with kids these days? (ouch..I am old.) No matter what I say. No matter what I do. If I talk loud..if I talk soft..If I bribe them...if I threaten them...nothing will make them behave. Nothing. Even if they go into the boss' office and she talks to them. They come back crying and say I am sorry. Then 6 minutes later they are at it again. I only want them to NOT hurt themselves. Thats all. Well, Ok, I also would like them to stop calling me chubby, and asking me if I am 100 years old, I would like them to stop cussing, and saying poop, and penis and vagina. I also would like them to not yell at me and stop saying NO to me all the time..Please and thank you would go a long way..and please, for the love of God stop picking your nose and eating it! Are these kids "Lord of the Fives", "Children of the Corn", "Devil Spawn", "Pirate Children of the Carribean"?

I did not know this man to lie

My older kids arrive in the afternoon on the bus. I have two of them one older and one younger who is disabled. When the older one came in I said Hi, where is Darwin? He said He is not on the bus or he did not come today. Its not important. What is important is that he let me know that Darwin was not with him today. About 30 minutes later Darwin's mum comes in and says Did you know Darwin was outside? I was so shocked and mad at Ford that I must have apologized to Darwin's mom 40 times. Darwin had been outside by the door the whole 30 minutes. Why he did not yell I do not know. I told her it would never happen again. Some things are funny but this was not. I may plan revenge on Ford but I am sure instant Karma will get him.

Short Week

Today and yesterday they give me the 3 year olds. I like them a lot. There is a good mix in this group. Sweet and Sour. But Mondays are always hard for them. So there was a lot of Ms will you do this, Ms will you do that. There was a lot of I can't do it! I can't! I can't! I can't put my leg in my snow pants you have to help me. This seemed to me to be pretty much an automatic thing putting your leg into your snow pants. But I guess if you are 3 its not. So it took us an hour to get everyone dressed and outside. We stayed out for about 20 minutes and came in.

Then I was told I had to take the other group too. Which I find very strange and cheap of the day care to do this. So both days I had 3, 4, and school ages. Which is loud and crazy. But we made it through. We played doctor. They seem to really like being sick and going to the ER. They also love to be bandaged up. There was a lot of fake crying and a lot of Doctor help me. Help me please. I glanced at Kiwi once and he was all bandaged up and stretched out in his little chair and he had a basket covering his face. I think the doctor may not have gotten to him as soon as he should have. This may mean the kids have the ER time continuum sorted out correctly.

December 23

Oh, the days have just flown by. Tomorrow we are closed and I shall miss my little darlings. Today I got the great idea of a movie and popcorn. The movie I picked was Star Wars the original one in VHS. We don't have a dvd player. I thought this would be awesome for all my young masters. They watched about 20 minutes of it and then they grabbed their bankies and worn them. Then some of them watched and some of them were off and about. Darth Vader was a hit but I guess they were just too wound up for Christmas to settle down any. They talked me into going upstairs and opening up my presents so we did that. That was good for another ten minutes. The best fun I had this day was making them all say Merry Christmas to every single person who left. They had to say it loud and in a group...for some reason that just made my christmas very merry!

SNOW

Yay! Snow is the answer to all our problems. Kids love snow and so do I! We shall build and build and build. If we get cold we will go inside drink hot water and then go outside and build more snow forts, snowmen, snowwomen, snow kids, snowshoes, and snow dogs. I cannot wait!

Gingerbread men

And last week I made my young masters gingerbread men as a garland...so they had to decorate them with eyes and buttons and mouths....so Ernesto put penis' and balls on all of his...and he sat there and did one after the other and said what he was doing out loud while he was doing it....heres a penis and here is his balls and here is his penis and here are his balls...so I went and told Mimi..I told him to stop it but he wont...she made him sit in her room...he cryed but we all laughed about it because even tho it was inappropriate it was damn funny!

Day 33

My first day working in a day care was okay. The children were nice. They were cute and interested in me. I trained with a young girl who was going to student teach in the fall. We joked about how she will forget what age group she is working with and tell the high school kids "No no, that is not acceptable." or "Trevor go sit on the bench now for being naughty. Remember we are all friends here at school."

We have to redirect in day care. Yes, we redirect over and over and over again. I know the kids know what is right or wrong because many times when I redirect they have just a little hint of a smirk on their faces. Sometimes they have this very very blank stare and I have to wonder are they actually listening to me or are they thinking yeah, yeah, I've heard this song before. I guess it depends on what kid it is some are listening some are actually thinking about the next bad thing they can do and this time how can they get away with it.