on growing

Posted on April 29, 2008

I’m so amazed with how fast children grow. Before I experienced this with Mateo, I witnessed this with my students. On my first year of teaching, I was the math teacher for the grade four class. They were a bunch of boisterous, gregarious kids. Some of them were so small, they look like first graders. This coming June, the same class will be in first year high school and I am amazed at how fast and how big they’ve grown. Some are experiencing growth spurts. The girls are starting to look like young ladies. Some of them might be needing an acne treatment soon. I sometimes feel like they are my own kids already! Soon, they will not be kids anymore. I dread the day when I’d see them graduate from high school. Of course, I’d be happy for them and I’d be hoping they turn out to be fine young people.

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