Personal Narrative: My Experience Of Working With Young Children

The reason I wrote this comic was because of my experience of working over the summer with young children. There were several events that pushed me toward having this experience. Through working with young children where I was a counselor at a summer camp I learned the how much people evolve since childhood. While watching the young children I got to see some events that paralleled many of the experiences that I had when I was a child. The first experience that I had that reminded me of my childhood was when I was at the park and I wanted to play on the swings. The child that was on the swings at the time did not want to let me use it, even though he had been on the swings for what seemed like an eternity. This situation very much parallels many of the problems that young children tend to have. Many young children have problems sharing as they do not fully understand how what they does affects others. This reminded me of the situation this summer when I saw a child take a toy from another child because they didn’t have a chance to play with it yet. There …show more content…
These panels (3. 3-4) show my reaction to learning about how I felt about being upset that someone took the toy that they were playing with. In the fourth panel it can be seen that I am upset that the problem that he is having is not a major problem, although through reflecting on my past experiences I realize that even though these problems may be small to adult, they can mean the world to these children. This taught me to have a lot of patience with children, so that rather than getting annoyed I realize that to them this is a crisis point in their lives, a point that they may soon forget. This quality in children, to quickly move on, can be seen on page five of the comic. Seeing that Everett went from being upset with Jane, to asking her to marry