Kadijah C.

Meet Kadijah

• Speaks English
• Comfortable with pets
• Has a car

I completed my community service hours by doing babysitting. I chose to do babysitting because one day I hope to become a great elementary teacher. I thought that babysitting would be a great way to learn more about how a child’s mind works. I also thought it would be a great learning experience and teach me more about what I need to work on to become a elementary school teacher. My duties and responsibilities while babysitting were looking after the kids while their parents were at work. On my shorter days, my duties were to make sure that the kids ate breakfast. On my longer days I had more responsibilities and I had to make sure that the kids ate breakfast and also ate lunch. After their lunch the kids had to take a nap. This was probably one of the hardest things to do during my time babysitting. At Read more first it took me awhile to get the kids to fall asleep. I soon found out that it was easier for them to fall asleep after watching a movie because they were more calmed down and it got them tired. I also tried to teach the kids their ABC’s. It took a lot of patience and hard work. I learned that children do not have the longest attention span in the world. In fact they hardly have any attention span at all. I found out that it worked better if we worked on their ABC’s just long enough before I noticed the kids were getting bored and then we would stop and do something else that was more fun to them and then later go back to learning the ABC’s. This way they were always interested and learned more in a day. I also learned that children will obey someone that they know better. I could tell at first that the kids were nervous to meet me and spend the day with me. By the end of the community service the kids were very comfortable with me and they listened to everything I said or told them to do. Also the more I got to know them and the more comfortable they were with me the more they trusted me and wanted me to be there. By the time my community service hours were completed the kids did not want me to leave. Knowing that the kids did not want me to leave is what I liked most about my community service. I think that the whole family sees me more as a family friend now then just a babysitter. My best experience while completing my community service was overall just looking after the kids and spending time with them. My worst experience was trying to get the kids to fall asleep to take a nap. At first they cried and cried until they fell asleep.

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