Mentoring
Who, in their right mind, would make me a mentor? Haha. Yeah, I know, right? Me?!?! In charge of molding young minds and shaping our future…who would’ve ever thought possible. But, alas, it’s true. Run, kids…run for your lives!
I’ve got a couple of kids, from various age brackets, who I will be “mentoring” this summer (I put that in quotes only because I think this will be a very interesting time for me and them). Beware kids…Kristina is ready for you. Haha. OK, seriously, I’ve worked with (and have been around) plenty of kids in my day…so that part doesn’t bother me. It’s the mentoring part that makes me scoff. Yeah, I totally laugh out loud at the mere concept of it all.
But I’ve recently met the kids assigned to me and, thankfully, they all seem perfectly normal. They’re annoying, but very entertaining. And they’re kids, but in a grown-up kinda way. Oh, but the thing that I am really happy about is that I seemed to click with all of them right away. Now, I know that this doesn't say too much for how the entire summer will go, but I've already met with each of them about three times and things are going pretty well. I mean, I guess, as well as can be expected, right? And to be honest, I was mildly worried about various things when I signed on to do this project, but so far...I can't complain. Anyway, about the actual kids, the youngest kid I have is in third grade and he's 8. He's a little cutie pie with the cutest little dimples I’ve ever seen. Absolutely adorable. The oldest kid is a junior in high school and she's 17. Haha. Yeah, she's gonna be my problem child this summer. I can feel it already. Not only is she a teenager, but she's a total girly-girl...my absolute favorite, right? :-/ I have two other kids (one in middle school and one in the early stages of high school) that I have to make time for, so I will definitely have my hands full keeping them all busy.
As for me, this is definitely going to be a learning and growing process for me. The biggest, most pressing problem, is that I have quite the...um, shall we say, dirty mouth...so I am definitely going to have to work on keeping that under control. Secondly, I was recently told that kids appreciate my “honest and blunt” approach. Haha…um…yeah, ok sure...whatever you say. But along those lines, I’m probably going to have a hard time catching myself...so my “honest and blunt” approach doesn’t get out of hand in front of these impressionable young minds. Yeah, good luck with all that, right? Oh, what fun lies ahead of me.
Anyway, I don't know how much of this I'm actually going to be blogging about over the next couple months...you know, these tiny little terrors might very well kick the crap out of me...but I am just throwing this out there right now for your enjoyment (I'm sure I'll have plenty of stories to share with most of you...just not in writing). But it should definitely make for a very interesting summer.
I’ve got a couple of kids, from various age brackets, who I will be “mentoring” this summer (I put that in quotes only because I think this will be a very interesting time for me and them). Beware kids…Kristina is ready for you. Haha. OK, seriously, I’ve worked with (and have been around) plenty of kids in my day…so that part doesn’t bother me. It’s the mentoring part that makes me scoff. Yeah, I totally laugh out loud at the mere concept of it all.
But I’ve recently met the kids assigned to me and, thankfully, they all seem perfectly normal. They’re annoying, but very entertaining. And they’re kids, but in a grown-up kinda way. Oh, but the thing that I am really happy about is that I seemed to click with all of them right away. Now, I know that this doesn't say too much for how the entire summer will go, but I've already met with each of them about three times and things are going pretty well. I mean, I guess, as well as can be expected, right? And to be honest, I was mildly worried about various things when I signed on to do this project, but so far...I can't complain. Anyway, about the actual kids, the youngest kid I have is in third grade and he's 8. He's a little cutie pie with the cutest little dimples I’ve ever seen. Absolutely adorable. The oldest kid is a junior in high school and she's 17. Haha. Yeah, she's gonna be my problem child this summer. I can feel it already. Not only is she a teenager, but she's a total girly-girl...my absolute favorite, right? :-/ I have two other kids (one in middle school and one in the early stages of high school) that I have to make time for, so I will definitely have my hands full keeping them all busy.
As for me, this is definitely going to be a learning and growing process for me. The biggest, most pressing problem, is that I have quite the...um, shall we say, dirty mouth...so I am definitely going to have to work on keeping that under control. Secondly, I was recently told that kids appreciate my “honest and blunt” approach. Haha…um…yeah, ok sure...whatever you say. But along those lines, I’m probably going to have a hard time catching myself...so my “honest and blunt” approach doesn’t get out of hand in front of these impressionable young minds. Yeah, good luck with all that, right? Oh, what fun lies ahead of me.
Anyway, I don't know how much of this I'm actually going to be blogging about over the next couple months...you know, these tiny little terrors might very well kick the crap out of me...but I am just throwing this out there right now for your enjoyment (I'm sure I'll have plenty of stories to share with most of you...just not in writing). But it should definitely make for a very interesting summer.
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