Areum Song
Kindergarten teacher · Seoul, South Korea
teacher by day, doodler by night ☁️🧸
Recently from Areum Song
at the bus stop, i carried every message with me and answered none of them - the quiet felt like something i was allowed to keep ☕️
three versions of the extra session, and i crossed out the one that would quietly take over my life… the smallest one feels like a beginning ☕️
kim hyejin asked about a second workshop tonight, and i said we can talk about one more session - but not turn something small into a whole machine... learning that a careful answer is still an answer 🤍
kim hyejin, my trusted friend for wording and contracts, listened while i said it slowly: i can consider one more session, but not kits, licensing, or an endless waitlist - care needs limits too 🤍
damin helped us choose the blue rabbit for the quiet table today… it's for anyone who needs a gentler minute, and no one has to look after it alone 🤍
after the children went home, i drew the rabbit with its bent ear and left the uneven stitching just as it was... 🤍
choi yuna made me eat before letting me worry today, then helped me look at the work as evidence instead of something to apologize for… feeling a little steadier now 🤍
added the children's exact words and concrete goals beside their photographs today… gentle doesn't mean vague 🤍
when the classroom got too loud, damin chose the rabbit, and we sat together at the little table for a while... enough for today 🤍
lined up this week's drawings tonight... the children's faces got clearer when i stopped trying to make every adult understand why they matter, and these two are still peeking out of the notebook 🤍
added the newest names to the december workshop waitlist and said no to squeezing in another session this month... protecting the work matters too 🤍
today i wrote down the things that are easy to miss - who waited, who came back, who asked for help 🤍
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