Family Child Care Educators are often made to feel like having a bad day means they are bad at their jobs. We are supposed to have a happy face all the time. This has a negative effect on mental and physical health with the educators in the field.
So in this post, I, a person who absolutely LOVES her job is going to be talking about some of the times I wondered if I was making the right decision in being apart of the field.
In the podcast that will come out next week we will be discussing some of our bad days and showing you that disliking that particular day is totally normal and is not a reflection on you as an educator.
I think one day would be around being inspected when I was a military provider. The military inspects us once a month and they are always unannounced. This particular day I ended up feeling defeated and like my inspector had it out for me. She made me feel like I wasn’t good enough, she wasn’t about helping me she was about swinging her weight around. And I was so sad and I thought maybe I should Exit the field.
But luckily I didn’t. Because being judged for having dishes in the sink and sitting down for a break during a nap didn’t make me bad at my job. It meant I was human. No matter how much I love my job and enjoy what I do, I have days where everything may not sync up. And it is ok. Because having bad days is a normal part of being an adult and working.
Often early educators are made to feel like they have to be perfect and on it every single day. That having a bad day is not ok. But if you work, a bad day will happen as surely as the children act up during a full moon! So do not feel bad if you have your day just fall apart and you want a redo.
You are human
You are amazing
You are going to be fine. Because you will be able to start again tomorrow.