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: 1/22/2007 10:49:00 AM Author: Ben Subject: Very Inspirational I am a 25-year-old male in Canada. ECE is the profession I've always known would suit me best but I've stalled due to the unfair weirdness factor. It's sad to admit, but I was worried about what family and friends would think of me, and also how I'd be accepted as a male in the field. This thread has helped me put things into perspective and I now believe stronger than ever that the only opinions of me as a person that I'll ever truly respect are the opinions of the children I'll be working with. I honestly expected there'd be more like "Judy" but after reading so many intelligent comments I began wondering if she was just a prank. Then there's "Terri" who took it to another level! As long as we understand that even one such fascist is allowed influence over impressionable children, we must understand that there is a desperate need for men and women who are both sensitive and sensible to take jobs away from these people who’s disturbed perspectives render them highly inappropriate caregivers. My main motivation to teach is to prevent as many children as possible from becoming dysfunctional adults like Judy and Terri. About the diaper debate… There has to be a least-favourite aspect of every job and I’m thinking that, in ECE, diapers must top the list (unless you have to work with someone like Terri.) I’d gladly trade some handyman work for diaper duty any day. However, to be told by a boss or—worse—by a parent that I’m not allowed to change them because I’m male would be highly insulting. But any parent who says that is obviously just as ignorant as Judy (a.k.a. The Antichrist) and cannot be expected to be rational. To make these people understand why it isn’t a problem would be as difficult as convincing the child that it is. So the easiest way I see to deal with it would be to just thank them for lightening the workload and explain that I’ll be as content to live my life as a person who hasn’t had to deal with their smelly kid, as they are to live their life as a bigot. The children probably won’t know that their parents are discriminating against you and will remember you fondly in any case. Assuming the parents will always be stupid, you can imagine how they’ll be remembered. Name: Email: Subject

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