Personal Narrative: My Personal Experience Of Working With Children

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I have prior experience working with children in the after school setting. However, I had never been in a position where I alone am responsible for managing a group of small children. These past weeks have been a challenge as I try to implement a program that is completely new. The activities that I have organized, generally start with a warm-up and end with a fun game. The children have been responding really well to all the different activities that we have been doing over the past few weeks and I have been learning along the way.
When it comes to managing kids, I have learned that whatever needs to be said, has to be said quickly and it has to make sense to the kids. Generally, if the kids understand the instructions of the game or how to

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