{"id":1297,"date":"2015-03-09T10:34:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T14:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.sosgarde.ca\/blog\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2015-03-09T10:34:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T14:34:31","slug":"why-i-am-not-a-kindergarten-teacher-or-a-nanny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sosgarde.ca\/blog\/babysitter\/why-i-am-not-a-kindergarten-teacher-or-a-nanny\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I am Not a Kindergarten Teacher (or a Nanny!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><em>This is a re-post from Chantal Saville from her blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sendmetoparis.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Send Me to Paris<\/a>. Just replace the word &#8220;teacher&#8221; with &#8220;babysitter&#8221; or &#8220;nanny&#8221; and you&#8217;ll find it holds true! People who make childcare their living are wonderful people!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Email Subject: Volunteers Needed!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.sosgarde.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/marketingforscientistscom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1299 \" src=\"https:\/\/dev.sosgarde.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/marketingforscientistscom.jpg\" alt=\"Image: Marketingforscientists.com\" width=\"156\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Email: Hi Room 1** Families!<\/p>\n<p>We need a few volunteers on Earth Day (April 22) for Scientists in the School! You would be needed for the whole morning to help out with<\/p>\n<p>Earth Day activities.<\/p>\n<p>***************************************************<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Hey! I can do that!\u2019, I thought to myself.<\/p>\n<p>Email Reply: Count me in!<\/p>\n<p>**************************************************<\/p>\n<p>Come Monday night at 11 p.m., remorse was setting in over my exuberant offer to participate, but I shook that off as just being the result of tales told by other Moms about how tiring this kind of volunteering is and decided, very uncharacteristically, to view this as a positive outing.<\/p>\n<p>What does one wear to volunteer in Senior Kindergarten?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThings that don\u2019t show stains\u201d, my mother replied.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmmm\u2026 Good point.<\/p>\n<p>2.75 hours later, I am home, cuddling my coffee and propping my eyelids open with pieces of the stir stick.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I AM EXHAUSTED!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They say Kindergarten kids utter 600+ words per day. I think you could safely triple that. Just this morning! 26 kids (plus Nikki, my daughter). All wanting to know ALLLL about me in the 20 minutes that I had them at my table.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you Nikki\u2019s Mom?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy do you always pick up Nikki? Doesn\u2019t she have a Dad?\u201d (Yikes)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat does Nikki like to eat for dinner?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNikki said you let her have juice. I\u2019m not allowed to have juice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s your name?\u201d (My answer? Mommy. After which, I got \u2018the look\u2019. You know the look if you have teenagers but apparently that look is starting earlier and earlier, apparently).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow old are you?\u201d (Ummm. Older than you.)<\/p>\n<p>You get the gist of my morning.<\/p>\n<p>Did I already tell you that<strong> I AM EXHAUSTED<\/strong>? How their teachers\u00a0do this every single day, I will never understand. The kids are wonderful, polite, sweet kids, but WOW\u2026 They have a LOT to say!<\/p>\n<p>I know at least that I made ONE good career move in my life\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Image: Marketingforscientists.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a re-post from Chantal Saville from her blog Send Me to Paris. Just replace the word &#8220;teacher&#8221; with &#8220;babysitter&#8221; or &#8220;nanny&#8221; and you&#8217;ll find it holds true! People who make childcare their living are wonderful people! A few weeks ago\u2026 Email Subject: Volunteers Needed! Email: Hi Room 1** Families! 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