The morning started of slow and stressful too. A little boy aged two spent about two hours attached to me. It was only after 15 minutes or so I spoke to another practitioner and raised the fact that he might be getting a temperature or perhaps not feeling well in general. She went to get the thermometer to check his temperature and noticed that his temperature was in fact very high.

They were confident enough to give me the responsibility of looking after him as they called his parents to come and pick him up. I had to check him temperature every 30 minutes and note down any changes.

This was the first challenge I had faced at the nursery, and it was good to gain the experience and knowledge on how to respond without making the child scared or uncomfortable. Furthermore, I was a real-time experience where I oversaw the child and it gave me an idea of problems that I might face if this was my career.