Question: hello, its me...the one who looks after her cousin... thank you for all you said on the chat...you have great ideas!!!!!!!!!!!! i wanted to ask what made you choose4 to look after kids??? and what made you chooose youre job x :)

Simone Bijvoet answered on 21 Jun 2011:

Hi xchelseameganx,
I really enjoyed chatting to you as well, and you sound like a really bright girl to me. I think what made me choose to work with kids is that I noticed how much I liked it and that I am quite good in connecting with kids and seeing things from their perspective. I would still like to be doing more real work with kids rather than just playing with them for 15 minutes and then having to go back to my desk again, but it is really fun though to figure out how children grow up and trying to answer the questions I am interested in. One of my main drives is that I really think that each child has its own potential and I would really like to get all of these great things out of each child individually. I personally think that pretending and acting is a great way of getting people to open up to what they are capable of and with my research I hope to convince others as well. 🙂