And that leads me to today’s topic: stinky vacuums. ![]() ![]() ![]() The drawback: hundreds of crushed and crusted cookie bits that had to be vacuumed up from the carpeting. The benefit: a manageable, happy classroom experience. And so we fed them, possibly to the chagrin of their parents, and we continued to feed them until that blessed stroke of the clock that released their mommy from service. It turns out you can get a tot to do almost anything with the lure of those sugar-filled, playfully shaped, wheat crackers. When that snack cart made its way to our room each Sunday, we found our salvation, all right. And so, the finger-painting projects were replaced with something incredibly more powerful the one thing that gave us an upper hand over even the unruliest of anklebiter the animal cookie. When you’re thrown into the trenches with fifteen toddlers screaming for their mommies, it’s simply a matter of survival. ![]() Being young and naive, we took the helm of the 2-year old class with ideas of cute crafts and lots of laughs. Before we had children of our own, my husband and I volunteered in our church nursery.
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