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I keep babies, as most people know. I know a lot about babies and I'm pretty good with kids so it's a job that I really enjoy. I didn't used to like kids... They are always dirty or sick or crying -- this is all true, by the way -- and they can't talk to you. As I started to work with them, I fell in love with them. They are so much smarter than you think. I especially like when kids talk. Tonight, I had a conversation with a little girl that was entirely about the polka-dots on my outfit. 

It's a really neat thing to me that we were all children once. We come into the world as a fairly blank slate and it is up to the people around us to help us grow into the people that we are to become. Everything that happens to you from birth makes you into the adult you will become. We are molded into the people that we are meant to be. That's a really neat idea to me. 

I really love that the babies that I keep will grow up to do awesome stuff. They will go to school and play sports and help people and take trips. They will experience as much as they can while they can. The world is a smorgasbord; they can and will do everything.

So, if you spend time around kids -- whether you love or hate them -- it's super important to nurture them. Let them tell you things that have no meaning. Let them point out all of the polka-dots on your shirt. They deserve your attention and affection. 

catch you later,

Karleigh

"The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice." // Peggy O'Mara