Midnight.....

Am sitting in front of the laptop, nibbling on seaweed biscuits with the loud music pumping into my ears. Suddenly thought of the conversation that I had a few days ago, with 2 of my seniors, who also takes Early Childhood Education. We'd chatted for approximately 2 hours at the hostel kitchen, in the middle of the night. The conversation made me even more determined and helped me recall the main purpose of taking this course, that is to provide children with the best environment and knowledge so that they can have the right mindset and guide them to live their lives to the fullest.

Other than that, the conversation also helped me know more about children with additional needs. After 2 sessions of class about this area, and also from the conversation with C.Y and T.W.T, I grew to become more interested about it. Both of them shared a lot of their personal experiences and opinions. It was a rewarding and meaningful talk.

Below are my own thoughts and feelings. You can either disagree or agree with what I say. *NO OFFENSE*

Well, I became very sensitive with people labelling children with special needs by calling them "retards", "weak" or "slow" and calling their situations or syndromes as "sickness". These words are actually very strong. It is inappropriate to be used on these children. What if the certain child heard you calling him names? These children have their own thoughts and feelings, just like all the other children. Some of them just haven't learn to express themselves through words.

I dislike people saying " These disabled children are slower than the normal children." What is meant by "normal"? Does it mean that you're calling the special needs children "abnormal"? Is it their fault for being special? NO! They are all creations of God and they deserve equal love and care like all the typical children.

Do not label a person when you don't even know him/her well.
Try to think of the consequences for a change.

Make the children's lives on the earth more meaningful and joyful instead of making their lives miserable and bitter.

Toodles!