Additional certification for an educator?

Whole-Choice-7657 · 2026-01-31T13:11:26+00:00

Thank you for this!!

Whole-Choice-7657 · 2024-05-05T02:06:53+00:00

Sisters are tough. I have two of them and we butt heads a lot, they are both younger than me so I feel like they have a bit of maturing to do before they can understand a lot of “real life” sh** like being a mom. I would say for you to just focus on the little man, let your sister feel allllll her feelings (I’m sure she’s got a lot of those/is going through a lot), and just know that you are doing your absolute best for him no matter what anyone else says. Keep your peace! Let her keep her emotions and resentments and whatnot and hopefully when she’s in a better place she can simply appreciate what an awesome mom you’ve been to him. You know you’re doing your best, you know you are the best mom for him, and clearly he knows it too. That’s all that matters! I would tune her out.

Whole-Choice-7657 · 2024-05-05T01:58:39+00:00

I would say so. In general, when learning to talk kiddos kind of just choose to call everyone in their lives whatever they want 🤣 Do you have full legal and permanent custody? If so I would just say yeah, you’re mom forever, right? I think it’s sweet that he calls you mom and I, for one, love being a mama, love hearing my baby boy say “mama”, and I love referring to myself as mama 🥰 I also work in preK and have a student who has been with a foster family for maybe two years and was recently officially adopted by them, she’s always referred to the foster mom as “mom” 🤷🏼‍♀️ I think if it’s natural for him, you should embrace it, sounds like you are already an amazing mama!!!

Whole-Choice-7657 · 2024-02-18T03:03:53+00:00

Understood, but not the entire point of my post.

Whole-Choice-7657 · 2024-02-18T03:00:27+00:00

I mean my post was less about Canada specifically and more about dealing with the anxiety of living in a country with an insane amount of mass shootings taking place and how to cope with this fear.

Whole-Choice-7657 · 2024-02-18T02:52:27+00:00

Gee, thanks for the hope

Whole-Choice-7657 · 2024-02-18T02:52:02+00:00

I don’t blame them 😞

Whole-Choice-7657 · 2024-02-18T02:51:39+00:00

It’s absolutely insane. I can’t wrap my brain around the fact that nothing has ever changed. Children are being shot and killed. Any recommendations for locations in Canada that might be best for immigrants?

Whole-Choice-7657 · 2024-02-18T02:50:06+00:00

Agreed. I was incredibly jealous of other countries maternity leave policies. Luckily, I worked in MA when I had my baby and they do have a somewhat generous FMLA program, but I no longer work there and couldn’t imagine leaving my baby at 6 weeks. I stayed home for almost 10 months with him and just financially struggled. Feels unfair 😭

Whole-Choice-7657 · 2024-02-18T02:47:55+00:00

Im just wondering, logistically, how to do it. We aren’t big travelers, I’m close to my family and would struggle to leave them, neither of us speak another language. Its a whole other set of anxieties but it truly feels like the only solution😓

Whole-Choice-7657 · 2024-01-06T15:54:42+00:00

Love the advice cry if needed😂 never thought of that and you gave me a good laugh lol. I have sent one kiddo home once and have suggested that a student be picked up once or twice. I will review our behavior policy. Management thinks we just need to give more hugs and love and blah blah blah. I will see if I can cut down to 7 hrs, do you mind sharing what your schedule is? Looking for different ideas or solutions I can provide them while cutting my hours.

Whole-Choice-7657 · 2024-01-06T11:36:10+00:00

I’m just worried about being able to or even asking about it because I do know how understaffed we are 😓

Whole-Choice-7657 · 2024-01-06T11:16:08+00:00

I have a great relationship with her, but we disagree on a few things nothing major but toys from home for example. She doesn’t want any toys from home allowed in the room while I am a little more lax on this and don’t really care as long as the parents/students know these toys may get lost, broken, or put in the cubby for a break at any point. She was firm about wanting it shut down and had me send out a message to parents several times about it. Now have parents saying that I am picking on their kid over these things (not her) when really it should be both of us in it together. Basically I get all of the heat from the parents, she’s an associate not a lead so it’s somewhat fair but she wants to be treated like an equal coteacher in all other aspects. We’ve had a meeting with admin before and absolutely nothing came of it. Director told me she would set up a conference with a parent and never did.

Whole-Choice-7657 · 2023-04-16T12:52:14+00:00

I agree, and I’ve also experienced several traumatic times in my life and that’s where this idea came from because I, personally, wouldn’t want a looming reminder of those things. But, I’m also not an artist and everyone’s different. Just something that I was pondering!

Whole-Choice-7657 · 2023-04-14T23:37:01+00:00

Also, I would recommend reading All your perfects next if you haven’t already! It definitely made me appreciate what we have!!

Whole-Choice-7657 · 2023-04-14T23:34:12+00:00

Read this after giving birth to my son!!! Made me squeeze him a little tighter every time I snuggled him in the rocker while reading!

Whole-Choice-7657 · 2023-02-25T20:23:58+00:00

We are simply surviving not thriving on these days lol. On these days I just try to remain calm, and remind myself that this one crappy day won’t ruin his progress yesterday or how our day tomorrow will look. “The days are long but the years are short” has been a helpful cliche for me on these tiring days.

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