Even more quotes...

“…my passion has been evolving for years. It is an ongoing process.”

~Leticia Lara, LCSW~

“… a built in passion that it was important to make a real contribution in the world…”

~Louise Derman-Sparks~

Ugh...

I wish I knew how to put these post on their designated pages. :(

More Quotes

Leave as little to chance as possible. Preparation is the key to success.
~Paul Brown~

I absolutely love this quote...
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe~

Quotes

I mentioned before about treating children as people not just kids.

“We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.”

 Stacia Tauscher quotes

Patty Smith Hill Quotes

T o feel oneself loved and understood thru all the waywardness of childhood is an inalienable right of every child.

~Patty Smith Hill~

Promises made to children should be as binding as contracts in adult society, as sacred as the covenants in Old Testament history.

~Patty Smith Hill~

Quotes from Edward Zigler (Head Start)

So I have a built-in empathy for poor children, as well as a deep belief, based on my own life, that just because you're poor that doesn't mean you're inadequate.

~Edward Zigler~

They are our partners in this learning enterprise, and we have a special responsibility to use this knowledge — not to fill up journals, but to make the lives of these children better.

~Edward Zigler~

In the good years, work very hard to win everything that's possibly winnable. In the bad years, work just as hard to keep your losses to a minimum. There are good times, and there are bad times. But you have to stay in the game.

~Edward Zigler~

Here is my web that didn't come up before.

My passion.....

These are the things I am passionate about and the things that motivate me to be the best me I can be.

A Child's Artwork

This piece of artwork was done by my oldest son when he was three. I chose this because I remember the day he asked me for a piece of paper so he could practice writing his "e". He was so proud of what he had done, and I decided to keep it so as he gets older I can show him how far he has come.

Handprint on My Heart

"There are always so many of my fingerprints to see,
On the furniture and walls from sticky, grubby me,
But if you stop and think a while,
You'll see I'm growing fast,
Those little handprints will disappear,
You can't bring back the past.
So here's a small reminder,
To keep not throw away,
Of how those tiny hands once looked,
To make you smile one day."
~ Author Unknown~

As an educator I have had the pleasure of teaching all ages of children and seeing children from infancy to middle school age. Every child I have had the opportunity to work with has touched my heart in some way. There are so many stories, but at the end of the day in general being able to see a former student who is now a teenager but was three or four when I taught them still remember me touches my heart more than anything. 

I actually had the pleasure of having a student in my fifth grade class this past year that was in my pre-k class years ago. He was so excited that I was his teacher and bragged to the other students every chance he could get about the things that we did in my class when he was small. Those are the moments that make this all worth while.

Meaningful Quotes

I have a favorite quote and it speaks volumes about who I am I live to make a difference, and children are a part of my destiny:

“A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove...but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child.”

 Forest E. Witcraft 

Of course I can't stop at just one, so here are a few more that I think are great:

 

“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.”

 Stacia Tauscher

It is so..... important to value children as people. If we can do that we can see their true worth.