What kind of person are you?

[torontokids]

It's funny, KellyP's post really got me thinking and I realized that I think I am mixing up being really good with kids and having kids be drawn to me to actually liking them. I realized the more I do his job that although I enjoy my days and like the kids I have, I don't think about them outside of closing time (unless I am making a business decision about terminating them etc) or I have some prep I couldn't do during the day. I said goodbye to my first child and it was more of a push out the door, no tears shed and wrote a termination letter on Fri for another and I am more focused on what the lost income would mean rather then the kid leaving.

My training is in social work and my colleagues never understood how I said I didn't like people. Heh heh, they thought maybe I made the wrong career choice. The thing is that I had the best client satisfaction rate and I continually saw my peers all falling down around me from burn out.

[Judy Trickett]

I said goodbye to my first child and it was more of a push out the door, no tears shed and wrote a termination letter on Fri for another and I am more focused on what the lost income would mean rather then the kid leaving.

I have had almost 50 kids through my care now. I have never, ever, shed a single tear for any of them leaving. That doesn't make me a bad, uncaring person - it makes me realistic and very good at making business decisions. When a kid leaves I might not cry over them but I DO know, deep down, that I made a difference and they were likely better off in my care than in the care of some other providers I know.