Recently Mrs Rodrigues came into the large muscle room while Mrs Friesen and I were in there, and asked me " Mr Castell... Why is it that every time I come in here, you're on the ground?" To my reply "cmon...I'm getting down go their level!" I'm usually the one in our room that gets treated as a jungle gym, and I have no problem with it. The kids have fun and are working their muscles by climbing, holding, and balancing onto me. We always make sure we're cautious and if things seem to be getting out of control, I'll shut it down. 
"Helpppp meeeee Mrs.Friesen!"
Lucky for me, the next time we went to large muscle we had both groups (older and younger) and I got to juggle them all... Here they are taking control... Haha
The only breather I get is when playing dead...
Taco time!
Mr.Castell
For me this demonstrates one of the reasons that Discovery goes out of its way to hire good male staff to balance out the good female staff we have. It seems they do some of the work of Child Care just a bit different and that many children really enjoy the variety that comes with a gender balanced staff. We are proud to have 15 male staff (more than any other Canadian Child Care program) working along side of 30 female staff. Hey, we also love a nice balance between older and younger staff as well. Thanks Mr. C. for writing this little blog and bringing up the topic.
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