Jayden's Counting Walk

Since I was a little girl, I have always wanted to write books. I enjoyed writing. However, I never entertained the thought of children's books until recently. My career has always been working with children. I started babysitting at age 11. I had a daughter named Rhonda. I wanted to be with her all the time so my goal was to work on a job where I could be with my daughter, and a job working in child care was an idea. Up until August 29, 2013, I have worked in several child care...
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Since I was a little girl, I have always wanted to write books. I enjoyed writing. However, I never entertained the thought of children's books until recently. My career has always been working with children. I started babysitting at age 11. I had a daughter named Rhonda. I wanted to be with her all the time so my goal was to work on a job where I could be with my daughter, and a job working in child care was an idea. Up until August 29, 2013, I have worked in several child care facilities as well as for 7 years I worked in a family's home and took care of their children. I worked for 8 years at a Christian school as a pre-k teacher. For the past17 years, I worked at a hospital day care center. One of the things I started doing at these facilities was writing little stories about the children when we did segments called "All About Me". I found this too be very enjoyable. Staff would ask me to make cards for the children and their parents. And when we took pictures of kids doing various activities, I would write little short phrases under pictures. The staff, kids, and especially the parents seemed to really enjoy reading them as much as I enjoyed writing them. I started working professionally with children in 1973 until 2013.