#childrens work

[godzilla-reads]

Reading: “My Own Devices: True Stories From the Road on Music, Science, and Senseless Love” by Dessa

Listening to: “Children’s Work” by Dessa

[nothingkept]

Children's work // Dessa

[accal1a]

Post-event crazies...

Me: *walks through the door of my friends house*

Boy: "How are you?"

Me: "I'm so tired I might die."

Boy: "Aww."

Me: "Like, I'm exhausted but also high on caffeine. It's a weird feeling."

Boy: "Okay, well.."

Me: "There were children; and then there was God; and then there was camping; and so much coffee."

Boy: "Okay, you can tell me about it later."

Me: "And they put me in charge of..."

Boy: "...Okay, why don't you lie on the sofa for a bit."

Me: "But I'm not tired!"

Boy: *carefully trips me and then catches me and lies me down*

Me: "I'm against this!"

Boy: *covers me with a blanket*

Me: "Okay, just for a minute..."

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#MySundayPhoto - Caution. Children. 

#MySundayPhoto – Caution. Children. 

An older image I found while updating my Instagram account over the weekend. For those interested, I can be followed on Instagram at @_AndyMackay. If you’ve seen the Lego Men that sometimes show up in pictures here, they can be found at @TalesFromTheToyShelf.

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[a-moth-to-the-flame]

A few weeks ago I blogged about knowing your workplace jargon. At the time It was all about super output areas, today it's about heuristic play. This is obviously something I've observed before as a parent when collecting my children from nursery, I didn't know it had a name. My contact with younger people is usually limited to 7-17 year olds as I'm a youth worker not a nursery nurse but the building I work from is now branching out and utilising our empty space during the day to provide sessions for 0-5's too so in my quest to find a USP for these sessions I've discovered heuristic play, I'm now fascinated by this. Now just a way to sell it to parents as discovery play rather than us just looking like cheapos.

[lillypad07]

I'm leading my first kids group tomorrow.

I'm so scared it's unreal.

I've been preparing all afternoon. 

There's the game type thing where there's a list of tasks and if they complete them then they get a sweet. One of them is, "say the 7x table". I'm so embarrassed to admit that I actually had to look it up and write down the answers because I don't know my 7x table. Ha.

Ohmygosh I'm so nervous about this, it's ridiculous. I don't think anyone's ever been so scared of a group of 7-11 year olds. 

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Dessa - childrens work