Tammie Walkowski
Tammie Walkowski
center days environment faces hug job kids knowing leaving nurturing providing safe seeing smiles
This can be a very challenging job but seeing the smiles on the children's faces and knowing that we're providing them a safe and nurturing environment makes it very rewarding. Some days when the kids come up to you as they are leaving the center and give you a hug or they come up to you and show you something they've just learned, you know this is why I do it.
classes creative curriculum range wide
The classes and seminars are on anything from curriculum to licensing requirements or creative activities, first aid, just a wide range of topics.
basically environment nurturing providing
It's basically providing a safe, nurturing environment for the children.
children good love might patience
You need to be good at multi-tasking and being flexible. You never know what's going to come up that day, where you might be needed. Patience is also very important. You need to be nurturing; you need to have the love of working with the children as well.
activities child family helping kids liked mom oldest playing watching
I was the oldest child in our family so I was always helping my mom watching the kids, playing with the kids and doing activities with them. It's something from little on that I've always liked to do.
basic classes good helpful job learn required run situations teachers time
They have the classes that day-care teachers are required to have. It's helpful to try to get a part-time job also to see how it's run and how things can be run. You learn every time you go into a new situations but it's good to get that basic idea of what is all involved.