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Outside of babysitting at a young age, my first professional experience working in the early childhood industry was at the ripe age of 15. I started at a daycare that cared for infants up to school aged. I quickly learned that liberties were taken with children under our care. Not physically unsafe liberties, but emotionally unsafe liberties. I moved on to other facilities that had different philosophies and business structures but it seemed that I would always find myself among one or two teachers that felt that they could take liberties with children's emotional well-being. It could have been with a clear need for power, a clear lack of empathy, or just simply not knowing better. I found myself falling into the same traps. I was over disciplining and always assuming the worst from those kids under my care. I supplied them with a fun atmosphere, and definitely had good intentions, but boy was I executing it dead wrong. I will always regret that. My age and inexperience weren't excuses for the entitlement that I had taken with my students. Eventually, I gained experience, I learned, and I had some amazing mentors along the way.

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