Top 10 Reasons for Managing an Early Years Setting

1. Knowing you are making a difference in young lives

2. Unlimited hugs and smiles

3. After retirement, at the nursing home, you will know over 300 craft projects to make from empty toilet tissue rolls.

4. If you live near your work, you’ll know the future generations of  newspaper deliverers, cashiers etc.

5. When insomnia strikes, you alone can recite pages of statutory regulations until you nod off from sheer boredom.

6. An encyclopaedic knowledge of Ben Ten, the Ninky Nonks, Fifi, Peppa Pig, Thomas the Tank Engine etc etc.

7. Having a ready repertoire that include s over 100 children’s stories, songs, and fingerplays.

8. Your abilities include plumbing skills… i.e., you’ve never met a toilet you couldn’t unclog.

9. The first to know when the current flu epidemic hits.

10. Having beautiful, young children in your life Monday through Friday, but your evenings and weekends are free! (unless you babysit – see previous post)