On Being a Teacher

…why teaching is my calling.

If not for a deep love of children

Wanting for all of them a better world

A better attitude with which to embrace the world they have,

A more confident outlook that it will someday be more acceptable…

Teaching them every day would be a drudged chore.

But…

Loving them

Caring that they have and are

All these things

Brings me to them.

The sadness of it is…

They don’t even realize.

by JGKipp

Pen name of Judith Norris

I wrote the stories in THE CHILDREN’S STORYBOOK for children 8 – 10 years old. A course from The Institute of Children’s Literature in Redding Ridge, Connecticut led me to write them. The first publication of them is here.