My current job allows me the opportunity to read and record life minute by minute, like when I review observations the teachers have written about 5 minutes or less of the life of a child in their care. I also record moments of the teachers every day jobs and try to draw conclusions about what they need to work on and/or what they are doing well from these brief snapshots of their day. I love reading about what the kids’ say during their imaginary play or something witty they reveal to their teachers as they complete a planned activity. I love recording my own children’s funny sayings or actions in this blog. I disagree though that you can really get a feel for an entire life or how well you perform your job from these small bits of information in yearbooks or gathered through occasional observations. Yearbooks show only the smiling faces of prom or students cutting up in the hallway for the yearbook photographers. Yearbooks don’t show what it feels like to be in high school, the challenges children and teenagers face as they move from sweet, naïve kindergarteners and precocious sixth graders to mature “ready to face to world and conquer it” graduating seniors. Don’t get me wrong, I love having the pictures of each year of my boys’ lives and my own, but I love even more having the words to go along with it. I love writing down the stories of these “snippets in time,” recording not only what was happening in life for those moments, but also what we felt, what we said, who we were. Hopefully, I’ll be able to look back and see the progression of myself and my family through these written musings, see the growth revealed in the words and experiences recorded, making these “snippets in time” more than something to look back on and critique as I am required to do at times through my work observations and turning them into words and memories to treasure and share with my children and their children for a long time to come.
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
June 8, 2011- Snippets in Time…
Today, I picked up my sons’ school yearbooks for the 2010-2011 school year. I spent about 30 minutes this evening just perusing the pages of the Preschool-12th grade “photo album,” which provides snapshots in time of a mere nine months of these kids’ lives. That’s what blogging or journaling is all about too, except using words instead of pictures, recording day to day or week by week moments in time, memories of how you felt, what you were thinking, and of all those fun, challenging, and inspiring events or quotes our family and friends share with us throughout life.
My current job allows me the opportunity to read and record life minute by minute, like when I review observations the teachers have written about 5 minutes or less of the life of a child in their care. I also record moments of the teachers every day jobs and try to draw conclusions about what they need to work on and/or what they are doing well from these brief snapshots of their day. I love reading about what the kids’ say during their imaginary play or something witty they reveal to their teachers as they complete a planned activity. I love recording my own children’s funny sayings or actions in this blog. I disagree though that you can really get a feel for an entire life or how well you perform your job from these small bits of information in yearbooks or gathered through occasional observations. Yearbooks show only the smiling faces of prom or students cutting up in the hallway for the yearbook photographers. Yearbooks don’t show what it feels like to be in high school, the challenges children and teenagers face as they move from sweet, naïve kindergarteners and precocious sixth graders to mature “ready to face to world and conquer it” graduating seniors. Don’t get me wrong, I love having the pictures of each year of my boys’ lives and my own, but I love even more having the words to go along with it. I love writing down the stories of these “snippets in time,” recording not only what was happening in life for those moments, but also what we felt, what we said, who we were. Hopefully, I’ll be able to look back and see the progression of myself and my family through these written musings, see the growth revealed in the words and experiences recorded, making these “snippets in time” more than something to look back on and critique as I am required to do at times through my work observations and turning them into words and memories to treasure and share with my children and their children for a long time to come.
My current job allows me the opportunity to read and record life minute by minute, like when I review observations the teachers have written about 5 minutes or less of the life of a child in their care. I also record moments of the teachers every day jobs and try to draw conclusions about what they need to work on and/or what they are doing well from these brief snapshots of their day. I love reading about what the kids’ say during their imaginary play or something witty they reveal to their teachers as they complete a planned activity. I love recording my own children’s funny sayings or actions in this blog. I disagree though that you can really get a feel for an entire life or how well you perform your job from these small bits of information in yearbooks or gathered through occasional observations. Yearbooks show only the smiling faces of prom or students cutting up in the hallway for the yearbook photographers. Yearbooks don’t show what it feels like to be in high school, the challenges children and teenagers face as they move from sweet, naïve kindergarteners and precocious sixth graders to mature “ready to face to world and conquer it” graduating seniors. Don’t get me wrong, I love having the pictures of each year of my boys’ lives and my own, but I love even more having the words to go along with it. I love writing down the stories of these “snippets in time,” recording not only what was happening in life for those moments, but also what we felt, what we said, who we were. Hopefully, I’ll be able to look back and see the progression of myself and my family through these written musings, see the growth revealed in the words and experiences recorded, making these “snippets in time” more than something to look back on and critique as I am required to do at times through my work observations and turning them into words and memories to treasure and share with my children and their children for a long time to come.
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