Personal Narrative: My Interaction With Infants

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As someone who has never cared for an infant before, being placed with those group age was an unfamiliar thing to me. Primitively, I had no idea how to interact with infants because I couldn’t decipher them, and they couldn't decipher me (communication barrier). There is the difference in learning things in the classroom and actually being in it (physically involved), for that reason, In the beginning, I had difficulties in fitting in and the children had their own difficulties in excepting an unknown person into their personal space. However, everything changed as I became comfortable in that environment and that transitioned into my interaction with the children. Majority of the children were comfortable with me being in their space, and

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