The most challenging part for me was working with very short staff, there are many kids that attend daycare and with 2-3 staff is challenging. Another thing that is challenging leaving for medical and missing out on class work and the daycare.

~Shania

There are 2 things that were very challenging for me. I’ve never sewed or crocheted in my life before we started college so it was all very new to me. I would get a little frustrated when I couldn’t sew or crochet it right so I’d ask for help from our instructor. Although it was challenging, I was also excited to be given the opportunity to learn to sew and crochet so I can do those for my own family as well.

~Lisa Parker :)

For my challenges, it’s managing different behaviours at the same time while the other children are needing help, some have bigger emotions. It’s also challenging when we need to quickly get things done such as brushing their teeth, changing their diapers but they aren’t moving at our pace. Sometimes communicating with coworkers on busy days when our expectations aren’t always the same, some days are tiring physically and emotionally. I am still learning to handle my emotions from outside of work, I’ve had to take 2 mental health days off since I started working in September. I am still very patient and professional at school and work most days.

-Angel A

Verna K.

I love that we all work as a team and learn from one another.

The most challenging for me is lunch time. Sometimes its difficult for me as a single mother and I have to stay at the Daycare Centre during lunch and I am not home to feed MY child before he attends his afternoon class at school, other days are good as my babysitter is the one bringing my child to school.

• janaya

The most challenging thing for me is when there is no work communication, and there is chaos going on in the daycare. But on days like this we all lean on each other and that is a good thing because we work together as a team and get the work done.

-Hillary

Most challenging one is thinking what to write on padlets, having to think of what to do when you’re not caught up from anything from being on medical or being sick (or one of our children are sick) or even when you have to go back to work from being short staff.. I still have some art work I need to do here in college from not being here from those times…

-krisy

The most challenging part is learning how to crochet, i need to learn how to be patience with that, and being short staffed at work, needing to stay at work and miss school, had to ask my colleagues what i missed and try catch up.

Getting my colleagues to learn how to communicate with each other. Being there for each other. Helping out.

Holly Kayuryuk

-learning to light a traditional qulliq

-sewing a felt book

-learning to make an owl out of seal skin

-learning more about the five domains

-having elders come in to talk about traditional knowledge

-bonding a lot more with my colleagues

-observing the children a lot more closely

-taking the course here at home, not having to leave my community for a course

Most challenging things so far for me is:

-managing my personal life, work life and college life

- some days at work we’re short staffed

-challenging to learn to sew sealskin as it was one of my first times to sew skin

The most challenging things are

Living life at home with a toddler while being busy at work with a lot of responsibilities at work and teaching them, while my child is at home with no routines. This work also taught and opened my eyes in many ways that it is important for children to have routines. It gets challenging because my child requires time with me, sometimes I get tired when I get home from work, but this opened my eyes so I’m glad to have taken this opportunity.

what’s also challenging is that some children have different needs and one after another child comes to me for different things but I just ask for help when more than 2 children come tome for my help.

Hattie