Kids

Summer time is here which means I get to spend ALL day with the kids I work with. Working with kids has to be one of the toughest jobs I've ever had. I've dealt with creepers, jerks, stalkers, backstabbers, users, insolent people and strangers that shared WAY too much about their personal life. I have also met some amazingly great people that have turned into, what I hope to be, life long friends. Yes I understand that in most jobs you have your good days and your bad days. I have never had a job that was such and emotional roller coaster like this job. Children are like sponges, they absorb EVERYTHING they hear and see. It really puts into perspective survival of the fittest and how these children are molded  purely by what they see their peers do. It's truly amazing how much you think your habits, good and bad, don't affect the kids that watch you and look up to you. KIDS SEE EVERYTHING! Children are SO much smarter then we give them credit. There are days that I am so overwhelmed with joy at the AMAZING behavior in some of these children, but this is a double edged sword. With all the good comes the bad! It is truly heart breaking to see how mean and hurtful humans can be to one another. It's also interesting to see the sense of entitlement some of these kids give themselves, not to mention how conniving and manipulative they can be as well. I can't be too heart broken about it I suppose. A lot of these kids are forced to grow up so quickly they don't have a chance to be naive or innocent.