This is a re-post from my old blog.
Leila*
was a typical 4 year-old little girl when I handled her during the summer of
last year. She is a lively child, very talkative, very pretty and really
polite. I like her and all of us teachers in the center like her.
Despite
her talkative nature, she is smart and so learns easily. My only problem with
Leila was that she gets too sleepy at the middle of the session. There was even
one time that she practically fell asleep.
I
talked to her mom and told her about it. I found out then that Leila wakes up
at 5:30 to prepare for her ‘modeling
session’, after that comes her 'ballet lesson'. From ballet she will then go
to our center for her 'reading
lesson' with me. After that she will go to 'swimming lesson', then
finally goes home. EVERY DAY.
I
was speechless. I wanted so much to remind the mom that Leila is a child, she
gets exhausted and that she needs to rest. But mom’s facial expression was
hard, even for a teacher like myself, to penetrate, and the least I could do
was to say “Oh, that’s why. Well, maybe she
needs some rest..’ but
mom didn’t seem to hear.
By
the way, Leila eats her lunch in the car on her way to our center.. Poor
child..
*not
real name
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