Thursday, February 26, 2009

Mom - Job Description


POSITION: MOM

JOB DESCRIPTION:
Long term team players needed for challenging permanent work in an often chaotic environment. Candidates must possess excellent communication and organizational skills and be willing to work various hours, which will include evenings and weekends and frequent 24 hour shifts on call. Some overnight travel required, including trips to primitive camping sites on rainy weekends and endless sports tournaments in faraway cities. Travel expenses not reimbursed. Extensive courier duties also required.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
This is for the rest of your life. Must be willing to be hated at least temporarily, until someone needs $5 to go skating. Must be willing to bite tongue repeatedly. Also, must possess the physical stamina of a pack mule and be able to go from zero to 60 mph in three seconds flat in case, this time, the screams from the backyard are not someone just crying wolf. Must be willing to face stimulating technical challenges, such as small gadget repair, mysteriously sluggish toilets and stuck zippers. Must screen phone calls, maintain calendars and coordinate production of multiple homework projects. Must have ability to plan and organize social gatherings for clients of all ages and mental outlooks. Must be willing to be indispensable one minute, and embarrassed the next. Must handle assembly and product safety testing of a half million cheap, plastic toys and battery operated devices. Must always hope for the best but be prepared for the worst. Responsibilities also include floor maintenance and janitorial work throughout the facility.

POSSIBILITY FOR ADVANCEMENT AND PROMOTION:
Virtually none. Your job is to remain in the same position for years, without complaining, constantly retraining and updating your skills, so that those in your charge can ultimately surpass you.

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE:
None required, unfortunately. On-the-job training offered on a continually exhausting basis.

WAGES AND COMPENSATION:
You pay them, offering frequent raises and bonuses. A balloon payment is due when they turn 18 because of the assumption that college will help them become financially independent. When you die, you give them whatever is left. The oddest thing about this reverse-salary scheme is that you actually enjoy it and wish you could only do more.

BENEFITS:
While no health or dental insurance, no pension, no tuition reimbursement, no paid holidays and no stock options are offered, job supplies limitless opportunities for personal growth and free hugs for life if you play your cards right.
~~ Author Unknown ~~

Monday, February 9, 2009

We take Play VERY Seriously

I believe that through PLAY children...



Learn to solve problems.

Expand their imagination.

Develop physical, social and emotional skills.





















That's why at our Home "We take Play VERY seriously".
:)Nayeli



Sunday, February 1, 2009

An outdoor playroom


One of our favorite places to go is "Oxbow Eco Center", an outdoor playroom for my family.





As we observe colors, textures, smells and sounds, we allow Nature to be our teacher.































And even Perla (our Black-Lab) loves going to Oxbow!





Hum? You are going to have to trust me on this one, but yea, she loves it!!



"Nature inspires creativity in a child demanding visualization and the full use of the senses"
from the book "Last child in the woods:Saving our children from Nature-Deficit disorder" Author, Richard Louv


:)Nayeli