Just Learning

[rosyred45]

CONGRATS ON THE SOBRIETY, it touches my family personally, so I can't imagine not feeling it.

I have to say the kids absolutely love to have male figures around. There aren't that many men in the child care profession. I had gone to Pittsburgh a couple of years ago for a national conferance. I was surprised to see men there. There weren't many, but they were there.

When some of the dads come in to get their kids and they stop and play or sit with the kids, all of the rest somehow gravitate towards them.

Are they thinking: Oh, look, somebody's dad, let's go over there?
OR : Oh look, fresh meat for us to devour?? ;D

It can open up a whole new perspective. I haven't had any men come in for the opporitunity to work with my kids, but I keep telling some of the guys I know they need to. They would have an absolute blast. Unfortunately, none of them take me up on it.

Let me know what you think.
Kaiti

[Learner]

We moved to Maryland when my old boy Greg was going into third grade already diagnosed as LD. The school available to him was terrible so after much argument with the bureaucracy, we were able to chose a school and LD class in the county system. The one we chose had a male teacher. He looked like he'd just come out of the woods--flannel shirts and jeans, very masculine. Greg just loved him. He had the perfect personality to handle the HA kids and yet obviously loved what he was doing. Greg still talks about him.

[rosyred45]

See, it's the ones you least expect to touch someone that turns out to be their angel

I have so many angels here, it's almost unbelievable.
Kaiti