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Saving My Ass Five Hours A Week

When the parents arrive at 11:30 to pick up their kids

From the Artful Child nursery school

Maria calls their name

One by one.

DAILY SNACK

When the parents arrive at 11:30 to pick up their kids

From the Artful Child nursery school

Maria calls their names

One by one.

Colum always comes tearing around the corner

Calling out, “Mommy! Mommy!”

He loves it there.

Yesterday Maria told me that he is such a stable personality.

Wha?

If Colum is the stable personality in that room,

Then boy am I ever grateful to not be there for 2.5 hours two days a week.

We do not pay our Early Childhood Educators nearly enough.

(Cough, cough. Government.)

He is always so proud to bring home things like this:

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By Rebecca Cuneo Keenan

Rebecca Cuneo Keenan is a writer who lives in Toronto with her husband and three children.