Relating

When I am reading my book, I feel like I can relate to it a lot. Done says there are the standard speeches teachers make during the year and feel like they repeat them endlessly. Working at the daycare, I feel like I just say the same thing every day. For example, in my book, Done calls it speech 29-Come Stand by me speech. At my daycare, it’s the Come Sit Down by me speech. The speeches that are the exact same are speech 45-Stop Talking Speech, speech 38- Don't do it Just Because She Said to speech, and Speech 259- Oops (if you can’t get this one, its "I forgot you were sitting out, you can get up now" speech)

There is also a chapter on things you can always expect. Some of these are exactly true for the kids I've worked with. like "When they sit on the carpet to hear a story, they will play with their shoelaces and stare at their fingernails as if they have never seen shoelaces and fingernails before", and "Right before they jump off the jungle gym, they will shout 'look!' when they are hanging upside-down on the monkey bars, they will wave and call your name"