Moving on....

Although teaching has been an amazing ride I am moving on...leaving teaching and going into Nursing. I will really miss teaching but I realize there is an awful lot of teaching in Nursing...I guess it's safe to say 'once a teacher always a teacher'.

Just thinking back to a kiddo and a mom I worked with last year. Another family living with a child diagnosed with Autism. The kiddo would just run all day back and forth...back and forth...back and forth until he was exhausted and then crash onto the couch and fall asleep. His mother was desperate to get this kid to stop running and 'relate'. The first week I met him I just ran with him, his mom told me that he had a favorite blanket that he loved to hold so I grabbed the blanket and ran with it beside him...as the blanket was waving in the wind as I ran, he stopped and looked at me like I was crazy...but he stopped! I stopped, handed him the blanket, he took it and handed it back to me...I gave it back and he handed it back, this exchange lasted a few minutes until he started to run again. His mom was so exicted for that little interaction... a while later our session had ended and as I was leaving the house I looked back through the large bay window and saw his mom running back and forth with the blanket trailing behind and her son looking up at her with his outstreched arm...a picture I will never forget!