A Girl

Sometimes you can forget little children think for themselves (or is only me who thinks this?), and circumstances come up to show you the error of your ways. Children can be logical.

The Nursery was enjoying snack time. A little girl began to scream. The boy sitting next to her declared, "You scream like a girl." The boy next to him replied, "She is a girl."

No snacks?

If you have ever worked with nursery aged children (18 months to 3-yrs-old), you know the importance of having a snack time. You have these children with you playing for two hours working up an appetite.

One day my calling was a Nursery Worker, the parent assigned to bring snacks that Sunday were out sick or forgot the snack. Luckily, we had a reserve for such times. Once inside the cabinet we saw our reserve was lacking. We were "in panic mode" because we had already seated the children, and they knew it was time to eat.

Towards the back we found a bag of trail mix, and we began to discuss whether they would eat this stuff or not. The sister serving with me said her son called it "yucky stuff." We decided to give it a try because we had no other options.

After we made a pass around with the mix, a small boy declared, "I love this yucky stuff." I guess we weren't whispering as quietly as we thought.

Nursery Chorister

This was my first calling. I would come into the Nursery Room at a specific time, and sing. I guess it should have been common sense to me how children at that age have little to no attention spans.

I would come in and gather them around me. We would start to sing, and when they had enough. They would get up and leave. One by one they would walk away and grab a toy. Until I would be left alone with the adults singing.

It's funny how a little child can walk away from you in mid-conversation (or song) and it is OK. If an adult does this to you, it's rude. Children really do follow the beat of their own drum.