Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 7/29/2003 7:43:00 PM Author: Daycare Provider Subject: I just quit my daycare job after 6 yea... I just quit my daycare job after 6 years. I miss "my babies" terribly, but I know that I made the right choice. I did not go to work until my 3rd child was 3 and all of my children went with me to the private school where I taught infants - preschoolers (not at the same time). I was in the same building as my children but a few months ago I realized that I had missed so much of the past 6 years with my children. I looked at them and wondered where the time had gone. I wish I would have worked less and been with them (mentally and physically) more! Working with children is all consuming. I was passionate about my job and now I feel like I put all of my energy into raising other peoples children and missed out on a lot. I loved my job--I do not think that a person should work with children unless they love it--but I intend to focus on my own children for awhile. Children grow up fast--18 or 19 years and they will be grown and gone. In the big picture of life we really do not get a lot of time with them in our homes. When you work full-time, take care of a house and all of the requirements of a family, you really do not get a lot of time to focus on the most important things: people. You can make money, buy things and go places now or later, but you can only see your baby take his first step once, later it will be too late. Name: Email: Subject

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