Working with kids, in any setting, is way harder than working with adults, so I would really re-think that, maybe talk to someone who knows more about what you would encounter and what skills you have to have to handle it.
I don't mean to presume anything about you, but you strike me as an extremely sympathetic person and that can be an extreme disadvantage at times. The more you engage, the more you drag work home with yourself. And kids make you engage even more than adults do :-/
I see it with myself - my kids (hell, even using the possessive here is really indicative) don't have any out of the ordinary problems, but I still take so much home with me. That kid had a black eye and he said he got in a fight with a kid at school but he's also lost weight and looks really unhappy, I wonder what's going on at home. This girl has lost so much weight and I see her perfectionism in everything she does and that's just not healthy, classic character trait of people with eating disorders. It never ever stops.
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Date: 2011-11-04 08:14 am (UTC)I don't mean to presume anything about you, but you strike me as an extremely sympathetic person and that can be an extreme disadvantage at times. The more you engage, the more you drag work home with yourself. And kids make you engage even more than adults do :-/
I see it with myself - my kids (hell, even using the possessive here is really indicative) don't have any out of the ordinary problems, but I still take so much home with me. That kid had a black eye and he said he got in a fight with a kid at school but he's also lost weight and looks really unhappy, I wonder what's going on at home. This girl has lost so much weight and I see her perfectionism in everything she does and that's just not healthy, classic character trait of people with eating disorders.
It never ever stops.