Nursery World - Taking care of ourselves

If we are to nurture children's spiritual growth we must take care of our own. We all owe it to our children to be spiritually healthy. In this hectic world it is all too easy to operate in 'survival' mode. In the mornings you see the family off, find something to wear, walk the dog, search for some papers, then rush off to work, where you grab a coffee to give you a sufficient caffeine buzz until break time. As the children come in, you respond to each of them before you start implementing plans that you prepared during part of the weekend.

In this hectic world it is all too easy to operate in 'survival' mode. In the mornings you see the family off, find something to wear, walk the dog, search for some papers, then rush off to work, where you grab a coffee to give you a sufficient caffeine buzz until break time. As the children come in, you respond to each of them before you start implementing plans that you prepared during part of the weekend.

At the end of the nursery day you discover that you haven't completed all that you meant to, but something must have happened, because you are exhausted. It's as much as you can do to keep awake during the staff meeting, let alone contribute to the policy being discussed.

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