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Happy ECE Week everyone!!!
Take pride this week in knowing that you chose a profession that makes a difference in so many little people's lives! The many hats you wear, the long hours, the sometimes low pay, the hours spent cleaning/lesson planning/meal prep...it's all appreciated even if they're too little to tell you!!
Have a great week :)
I didn't know it was ECE week so thanks for letting us know 5LM and May is the month for Celebrating Children, so enjoy May and have fun with the kids everyone
In Quebec, the last week of May (this year 24th-30th) is Semaine des services de garde. (Childcare week) So, basically the same thing. The coordinating office (sort of like an agency, but not really) always tries to organize a get-together or outing for all of us, one day that week, with the kids and it sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. Generally, the week passes without much fanfare. The centres have a budget for this kind of thing; the centre in town does a big barbeque on the weekend for the families, but we don't have a budget so it's a lot harder for us to organize anything. And of course, being that we're a mostly English community the ads and messages for this Childcare week don't reach us, so the parents don't know about it. I guess if I wanted the parents to know that this was the week they should appreciate me, I would tell them, but that's a bit too forward for me. So, I guess it's up to us to celebrate each other as ECEs.
Way to go, everybody! Keep up the good work.:thumbsup:
I forgot about May celebrating children....thanks for the reminder Van!!
Awe......one of dcm's had a card with payment today. It was a thank you card with a nice note from her and $20 to Dairy Queen. So thoughtful! Great way to end the week :)
I've been a bit spoiled this week. My hubby and kids bought me flowers on Monday, and then a fellow daycare provider surprised all her daycare friends with boxes of timbits on Tuesday. On Wednesday a mom showed up with a card, a bottle of wine, two big cute balloons and a plant. But her card didn't mention ece week, it said thank you for taking such good care of her son. So I dont know if it was a coincidence or not? Yesterday a mom showed up with a giant coffee from Tim Hortons and then emailed me a gift card to zulilly. Her and I both love zulily, so I was touched by how thoughtful all these presents were.
Awesome!!! It's nice to feel appreciated :)
I wonder if me posting that it was ECE week on the Facebook Childcare page helped create awareness in our city lol
Maybe! I never thought of that. The ones that knew about it are on that page. The two that didn't say anything aren't on it, as far as I know.
1 out 4 of my moms are on that page and the 1 is who brought me a gift so that's what made me wonder lol. Although, I've had parents in the past who knew about ECE week but I think they knew about it because their older children were in centres
Lucky Guys !!! Enjoy :)