Raising Someone Else’s Child

The Lawless Monologue

Yesterday, my best friend and I scrolled through the parenting section of Indigo bookstore with much disgust. We can’t believe the advice in these books. Having both worked in daycare, we are fully aware that if we ever followed any of these books, our classrooms and programs would be utter chaos.

I always want to give people parenting advice, though not too many people take me seriously because I’m not actually a parent. But having been a Child & Youth Worker for almost 15 years, I feel like I have a lot of kids. I often call other people’s kids my kids, mostly because I pour my heart and soul into these people as though I had birthed them myself.

Unfortunately, I do have to give them back to their parents.

And this is always a very unfortunate thing because often times the parents have undone so many of the…

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