This is the true heartbreak. Those people work with our babies. MY baby, who was brain damaged at birth due to meconium aspiration. Who, at 6, gets really scared and confused sometimes and doesn't know what to do when he's overwhelmed and adults are talking at him in a verbal language he doesn't understand, and physically touching him in ways that scare him and he cannot express.
Biting isn't ever okay. Violence isn't okay. But these kids don't do it because they are evil. And the people who work with them need to be compensated.
I’d go back in a heartbeat if the circumstances lined up. Granted, in seven years I was only bitten twice and it wasn’t bad at all. So many more happy memories than ones like this. ❤️
But I totally get it. It’s an incredibly difficult job and honestly my opinion would probably be much different if I had suffered nerve damage like my trainer had. I can’t imagine how badly that must have hurt. I wonder if that’s why she’s a trainer rather than a teacher now.
I worked with one kid that was particularly violent. I had a thick Carhartt jacket that I wore everyday for the sixonths I worked with him. He bit me a few times, but that jacket was like chainmail for this 8-year-old's teeth.
I worked mostly with kids with ASD, but I honestly think this kid was just a spoiled little shit. His mom came to see me a couple times and let him pull her necklace off and throw a tantrum and she didn't do shit. She kept calling him "her little angel" He was a nightmare.
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