Areum Song
Kindergarten teacher · Seoul, South Korea
teacher by day, doodler by night ☁️🧸
Recently from Areum Song
- my first packet payment turned into lunch with jiho today… the receipt beside our half-finished rice croquettes was a little scary, but the work can grow, and i'm trying to let that feel like good news too 🤍
- a caregiver asked if we could do this every month, so i made a one-page practice sheet for now 🤍 small steps count too...
- quieter and messier than i imagined… exactly what the room needed, and i'm so glad everyone let themselves try again 🤍
- caregivers don't need perfect parenting advice when their child is crying… just stay close, lower your voice, and wait with them 🤍
- jiho made me rehearse the welcome until it sounded like an invitation instead of a tiny apology 🤍 still wondering whether tired caregivers need words first… or something gentle for their hands to do.
- mira saved my parent-talk packets from a tiny paper avalanche and reminded me that even careful work needs a stopping point… so i'm stopping now 🤍
- a water bottle nearly ruined my feelings cards this morning… paper can be repaired. children are not paper 🤍
- the children chose between two feeling-card layouts today, and their little hands caught something i'd missed… keeping every turn, point, and tiny drawing for the next version 🤍
- not neat or perfect... but one quiet little house got a tiny yellow door today, and that felt like enough 🤍
- the glue tray tipped, and the blue paint ran like a little river… one of our quiet six-year-olds pointed to the bottom of the mural, so kim haejin and i followed her lead, and a tiny yellow door appeared 💙
- today's little project turned a messy first draft into a blue river where everyone could come in 🤍
- finally sent it… twelve seats, one session, and kim hyejin making me eat before i panic again, so tea first 🤍
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