Have you ever had..

Have you ever had one of those days where you just keep repeating to yourself... I love my job. I love my job. I love my job. I love my job. Trying to convince yourself that if you can just hold on till 2:30 everything will be okay. Well I have had one of those days.... twice now.

The week started on such a good note. The children were unusually well behaved and all the staff in the school were commenting on how quiet ours kids were. It was the calm before the storm.

The next morning I woke up with a feeling in my stomach that I could not get rid of, and I knew Tuesday was going to be bad. I was on bus duty and when I got to a certain bus the bus driver just rolled her eyes and said "Good luck today" Another TA and I had to physically remove her from the bus as she was screaming and refusing to leave. When we got her to the classroom we took off her coat and she was still in her PJ's. We opened her backpack found her clothes for the day and a little baggy with some pills inside it. It had a note attached to it that said the respite home she was in could not control her since the night before and that she had not slept yet or taken her pills for the day. Sigh.. Why even bother to send her in?

She had tantrums all day and I think I spent the whole day in the hallway trying to contain her. Poor girl. She never asked for her mom to drink when she was in womb and yet now her mother is far away and someone else is raising her child and dealing with the monster she created. Its not fair.

Today she was back under control and doing good. But it was still a horrible day. It just seemed to shift to another child. This child seemed fine but when we went to circle he started to act up. I turned my attention to another child for a moment and he grabbed his shoes off his feet and threw his shoes at another TA. I quickly removed him from circle and told him he could go back when he ready. He then tried to get the other TA and I moved him to the door and as I moved him he scratched my arms. And I mean scratched them, they look horrible. I sat with him for over half an hour before he could join the other group. What frustrates me the most about this situation is that we told the teacher about it and she is not willing to do anything about it. She refuses to put him on a behaviour plan because she thinks he is such a good kid and it must be something we do. GRRRR...... Maybe he has to attack her for her to do anything.


Anyway that is my rant for the day. I will leave you with a cute story.

One of the ladies at work is 8 months pregnant and she has a HUGE belly. One of the kids asked her about her belly and she told her she had a baby in her stomach. The girls looks at her with disgust and replies, " Ewwwww... You eat babies!"


Hahahaha...


PS I looked up worst tantrums on You tube and I could not find any tantrums even close to the tantrums we deal with at school.