modified from my homework:

It is hard not to only focus on the week's traumatic events here. We've had great breakthrough with one child, who used to cry all day but is now comfortable and talkative. She requires lots of attention, but I fell that it is paying off very rapidly.

I have been stuck on one event. I had a three-year-old who I was telling that it was not OK to hit in the classroom, tell me, "I'm going to get a gun and spray on you. I'm going to make fire on you." I know in my head that he doesn't know the consequences of his words, but the incident really upset me. I said that guns are not safe but he was turned off to hearing. But I didn't know what else to do. I wrote up an incident report. My co-teacher spoke to the child's mother and she said that he had been watching Austin Powers!

My stupid award for he week goes to the parent who sent their three-year-old to school with a can of Diet Coke in their lunch.

I am continually rehearsing a conversation in my head that I want to have with my director but probably won't. I don't like the way she treats us as a staff. She told us not to drink water while outside with the children for our hour-long outside time. She told us that if we're five minutes late that we're going to get docked five minutes of pay and benefits, but she always runs her staff meetings overtime (I just get up and walk out on the hour because I have a ten hour workday, and my lunch break is very important to me). At the last staff meeting she said that we shouldn't be going to the bathroom at certain times. We don't get our legally required ten minute breaks, and I haven't had anyone tell me when I could go to the bathroom since I was in middle school. I was upset, but can't think of any kind or considerate way of addressing her yet.

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