As teachers, how can we make a bigger impact on each child that enters our doors?

While reading this story I was a little confused if this meeting happened in the center or outside the center. Was it a gathering for the child that his teachers were invited to? Other than these questions, I found this meeting very amazing and powerful. When Michael stated, "We come together for his or her sake, and this child must be very important to have brought all of us together," made me think that isn't this why we all decided to go into the early childhood education field, because every child is important and brings children, teachers, families, and the community together? That's why I decided to become a teacher. Every person that enters a young child's life may leave an impact on their life. But it's what kind of impact you make on each child's life that counts. Each child is important to their family, community, society, country, and world.

This meeting reminded me of a child's first birthday that is celebrated here in Hawaii. It is a celebration of all the benchmarks the child has completed from when they were born to the age of one. It's a time when the entire family comes together in celebrating the child's life and blessing the child's life. Each child belongs to a family and is so very important and precious, that it should be our honor as teachers to be able to be in their lives and teach them. A question that emerges to me is "As teachers, how can we make a bigger impact on each child that enters our doors?"