Child

My experiences over this trimester have been fun and taught me a lot about kids. Some things I have learned from my little buddy, is that I need to be patient sometimes. Like instead of getting frustrated and raising my voice when she doesn't do something right away, I can look her in the eyes and say softly but seriously what I'd like her to do. Something that I've learned from myself in this class is that I get frustrated really easily. Sometimes I get really frustrated when she doesn't stay sitting, or when she goes up to the front for attention. I've learned a little bit to calm myself down and remind myself that sometimes she doesn't know any better.

One of my biggest strengths I've found in this class is I can cheer her up if she is sad about something. Like when she was upset that she didn't get a prize, as we were walking down the hall she likes to run into the doors. After I let her do that and made sound effects for it, she was happy and excited again. I feel like I contributed to the class by not only concentrating on my buddy, but also helping out with other people's little buddies. Like Nat, she really likes to be my little buddy also, so I try to let her and Nat have fun together.

Some stepping stones I have crossed in this class is not being so intimidated in a way by kids. Before I took this class I never really knew how to be with kids. I used to figure give them what they want and things will be fine. But this class has taught me that you can't always let kids have what they want.

One thing I feel I could have done better is work more efficiently on my theme week and not think things would just take care of them selves. If I was to take this class again I think I would defiantly be more active in the after school things and try a little harder to be happy and excited everyday. Even the days that I'm tired or having a bad morning.

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