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Your baby is smarter than you!

{ Tuesday, August 18, 2009 @ 10:09 am } · { Baby, Children, Infants, Intelligence }
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/opinion/16gopnik.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&sq=baby%20smarter&st=cse&scp=1

9 months

{ Friday, August 22, 2008 @ 11:23 pm } · { Autism, Children, God, Work, future }
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It’s been months since I wrote the last online journal, where should I begin? I left UCSB for good (but I’ll be back next year), and started to look for jobs. Let me tell you this, it was actually one of the toughest time of my life beside that one time Santa Barbara incident. I felt so lost, so useless, and so upset that I didn’t have a job and not a college graduate yet. And I thought to myself and God that why is this happening to me, why not other people. I was very frustrated and confused that what I was going do the next year or so.

I think one of the reasons that I “stopped” writing blogs was that I didn’t want to face it and how harsh it had been for me. Looking back… being jobless for almost three months is definitely the lowest point in my life. It was like I’m not a college graduate yet, how am I going to find a good job.  Yet God was good, He provided a job to me that I would of never ever thought I would like it THAT much. I’ve been working with children who are under the age of 3, and I work with in all programs, including cognitive, speech, social, emtional, and behaviorial programs. It’s been almost 7 months, and I’ve learned a lot from the clinic.  I questioned myself if this is something I want to work for a long period of time. So I talked to parents whose child or children have autism, and it turned out that I have a desire to help their children to live a normal lives. I feel how painful their parents feel when they have children who have autism. And because I’ve worked with so many hard cases, which means I’ve worked with a lot of low functioning children, makes me want to accept the challenge and change people’s lives.  Seeing them improve a little already motivates me to push them a little more, seeing parents notice the difference in their children motivates me to work with them, and having such wonderful coworkers who are willing to sacriface their time and put extra effort in children’s programs motivates me to do the same thing. I seriously love my job, and I thank God for it.