I am more bothered than I thought I was!!

[daycaremum]

Working with children is what I was meant to do. I went to school for this, I have worked both in centre care and have now been self-employed for 13 years. I started home daycare years before I had any children of my own. But I still do not "love" the kids. I didn't "love" the 16 children in my class at the child care centre. I didn't "love" the school agers I worked with. My children's kindergarten teachers never "loved" them. I to look around at times and am happy that I am getting paid for doing a job I enjoy. I can still be passionate about my work and not "love" the children. It's nice that you do, but in my opinion,you are setting yourself up for disappointments, simply due to the nature of the business, as per your original post.