Tiny hands.
Posted on: July 26, 2010
Very tiny hands and fingers, sticky from being in little mouths (and hopefully not somewhere else). Big eyes and huge mops of floppy hair. Little cherub faces, with a mouth that opens but may never speak. Their hands may never write much more than their name. Some cannot see, cannot hear. For some of them, it gets harder to just breathe every day. And yet they always smile at you, smiling wide and trusting. Pinching you, kicking you, screaming at you – and hugging you, holding your hand, trying to sit on your lap and saying “I love you” through gaps in their front teeth.
It makes you so happy to be part of trying to make their life easier, and so angry that so many take things for granted.
Working with children with profound/multiple learning difficulties breaks my heart sometimes.
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