Getting to the Car :: 7 or 31 Days of Blogging :: Go

Day 7 :: Go

 

Ironically, even though being a BSF Children’s leader requires a significant amount of homework, two mornings out of my week, and working with toddlers who really want their mommies back for sometimes more than two hours straight, the hardest part of all is getting my own children to leave BSF.  I have girls who are four and two. While I teach one of the toddler classes, they are in their own classes learning the week’s lesson in age appropriate ways.  I am usually still waiting for mom’s to pick of their toddler when another BSF worker walks my kids over to my class.  When they get to me they are both hyper and tired.  My four year old especially seems to have used up all her listening abilities for the day.  At that point I also have been using all my powers of listening and patience and empathy and gentle but firm redirection to appropriate activities until they are utterly depleted.  And I feel like I am done dealing with kids.  Getting my kids from that room to the car feels like a herculean task.  I just want them to go.  They want to go different directions.