I may have mentioned that I work in child care. Today a child ran past me swearing loudly (the F word). Me being the only carer to hear her had to tell her off. I took her into another room and told her how bad that word is and how offensive I found it. And as I was saying all these things I knew that I wasn't being fully truthful. I have on occasion used this word and even though I cannot condone children this word I still felt that little nagging tick in my mind. In my mind I was saying well sometimes it just slips out and many of my friends use the word and I have no problem and are never offended by them using it. Yet I was telling this child how bad it was and how disappointed I was.
I guess the conclusion I have to come to is that a White lie said to a child is okay. Its a hard thing separating your grown up life from the child life you live around the kids you look after. There just has to be a balance because unfortunately I have met many teachers in my line of work who have worked for so long with children that they treat adults like they were children. Only thew other day I heard a teacher say to another teacher "what do you say" and the teacher responded with "Thankyou" If it were said to me my response would have been "Thankyou... for being an ass wipe!"
That is all for today.
I guess the conclusion I have to come to is that a White lie said to a child is okay. Its a hard thing separating your grown up life from the child life you live around the kids you look after. There just has to be a balance because unfortunately I have met many teachers in my line of work who have worked for so long with children that they treat adults like they were children. Only thew other day I heard a teacher say to another teacher "what do you say" and the teacher responded with "Thankyou" If it were said to me my response would have been "Thankyou... for being an ass wipe!"
That is all for today.