My househelp is graduating today from a child minders class. She has been so faithful in attending all the classes which have been taking place on Saturday afternoon for the last six weeks. She was very excited about graduating too. So i bought her a congratulations card and gave her a gift to encourage her and to let her know that this is not the end in life and that God has great plans in her life. As Mums, we need to encourage our househelps as much as we can. I imagine none of them ever went to school with the intention of becoming a househelp, am not sure they love their jobs but I imagine they need them anyway, so can we try to make their lives at least more bearable as much as we can. It’s always easy to say how hard it is to get along with them, but do we ever imagine how hard it is for other people to get along with us! Or are we the perfect ones? I doubt. This is not to say that I have not had tough times with househelps-oh I have, which Mum has not? You may need to buy me coffee, then we can have a one-on-one as I share lessons learnt in this field of househelps, but trust you me I am much better that when I first began!
About 2 weeks now, i had one of those moments with my house gal which required me to decide whether I was going to judge her or whether I would show mercy and forgive and let her stay on working with us.
ReplyDeleteIn my decision making, i thought how good she has been to my daughter Samara..she has been with us since Samara was 3 months and now she is 15months. She has also been good to us,never been respectful even once..so yes she had made a personal choice that maybe out of peer pressure or guilt forced her into what she did..but so what she is human, she has been good to my family...and so bravely my husband and I footed her expensive bill at the expense our little savings for a holiday trip..and decided to keep her with us..and we dont regret.We pray she has learned and life moves on.
So yes, our house gals are not perfect, neither are we but hey as Emma keeps asking do you know how hard it would be for you to stay with your current boss 24/7..it takes grace.
Lets appreciate these girls , after all we entrust them with our babies, and for me as long as my baby is being treated fine..all others are details...