Thank you!

Words alone just can't describe how this boy touches my heart so powerfully and deeply!! He makes me feel so important to be with him. I think the world of him!!

This boy replaces another little boy who was dropped from the tutoring program because the coordinator felt that the boy didn't seem to show enough interest in reading.

I felt so bad and heartbroken for him because I became so deeply attached to THAT boy as well and wanted to continue working with him. I felt that I was getting somewhere with him!! I feel so badly for him because it's just like they just gave up on him because they didn't think he was showing enough interest in reading.

I still see the boy in the school cafeteria and he'll run up to me and give me a great big hug and I give him a big hug back!!

He still remembers me, I'm so glad!! I'd also happily tutor him again, if he is ever to be reinstated back into the tutoring program!!


So now, I have THIS boy. I think that he feels lonesome at home with no male siblings to play with and talk to. And that when I started tutoring him, he began to look at me as his male role model. He really is a sweet darling little boy! He needs an adult friend to talk to and to share his thoughts and views with. He probably has male friends his age in his neighborhood. But there's nothing like having one or more brothers to pay with and talk to!

He feels almost like a son to me. When it comes to him and the other kids, I got a very soft heart for them. Especially for THIS boy! He's truly a gem!! I'm so glad that I met him! I begged the coordinator not to drop THIS boy from the program! He said that he won't.

He really wants to learn, and even though he may not be the best reader there, I like him reguardless! I just want to help him read and be his mentor! He feels the same about me as well. He's very special to me! I found myself becoming so deeply attached to him as well. And why not? He is a very sweet talkative and very bright- outspoken little boy. I love him with all my heart!!

He likes to engage very heavily and seriously in ultra-long talks about certain things that we read about and happily relate with about together! I just get a real kick out of him doing that!


This is how good he feels about me and wants me to be in his life;

Next week is school (spring break) vacation. He even wanted me to tutor him that week as well!! I'd have been more than happy to be with him and tutor him, but the school is closed. He wants me there to be with him even on my days off. I'll do it just for him! What a sweet kid! Guess you could say that he wants me all to himself. I'll miss him dearly while he's on vacation!

He wants to spend even MORE & MORE & MORE time with me - as much as he can get it, but because of the time constraints, I feel so terribly sorry that I can't have him with me longer to give him the attention and guidance that he needs and craves. He gives me the feeling that his dad probably isn't always around with him.

I wish that I could spend a day with him, mentor him, take him out to lunch, a movie and just talk with him one-on-one about whatever he likes to talk about. Like a Big Brother. And just let him talk away about the things that he likes and likes to do!! Let him just be a kid and share his thoughts and views with me!!!

I just love listening to him talk!! He sounds very well educated and interlectual! I'm learning quite a lot from this boy! They say that you're never too old to learn. Even if a child wants to teach you something!!

As a matter of fact, he never argues with me, nor does he ever dispute me at all. When I tell him something surprising about the topics in the books that we like to read to each other - something that he never even knew about, he'll look at me in surprise, in shock and in awe with his eyes and mouth wide open and he'll usually gasp in complete amazement! I absolutely LOVE to see that expression and watch him do that!! "Wow, I didn't know that! Boy, I'm so glad that you're tutoring me. You're telling me things that I never knew!", he often says. I just have to rub him on his head and smile at him! He'll smile back at me. He's awesome!!

He told me that he wants to become a football player for the NFL. I explained to him that he has to work real hard at it, and that in order for him to reach his goal, that he would have to finish school and maybe go on to college football. He also said that he'd like to become a zooologist. With strength, determination and hard work, I think he'll do it!

But that's years away. For now, I just want to see him just be a kid, enjoy life and take full advantage of his happy childhood.


He has two sisters attending the same school. One is 15, the other is 11. He's the only boy in his immdediate family. I've got a hunch that since he's the only boy and the fact that he has no brothers, he more than likely looks up to me as his big brother! He really likes me an awful lot. That really means a lot to me. He stole my heart, and I just became his friend and confidant. I'm so proud and happy to be in his life and to be helping him!! I'm like a big ole spoiled teddy bear to him and the others!

Hopefully, I'll get to meet and become friends with his parents and they'll let me take him out on Saturdays to lunch and a movie or something!! I may get that chance to soon, as there IS a family outing for the kids sometime in June. I want to go there to see him and meet his parents. I feel very honored and happy to be working with this little boy! He's like the son that I never had!!

I give him kind advice on things in life, and he accepts it with much grateful appreciativeness. He's become my little buddy!! I'd LOVE to be his best adult friend and help guide him in the right direction!

I wish that I could adopt him as my son!! He gives me real pleasure by spending time with me, as he makes me feel like a kid again myself!! He's a sweet adorable little boy!!

He likes quiet surroundings, and when the teens come down, they are often rowdy, noisy and rambunctious! He says to me quietly in my ear; "I don't like when they come down here because they are too noisy." I agree with him and said; "Yeah, they ARE noisy and rambunctious, aren't they?"

I get so appretiative of him wanting to be in my presence that I sometimes shed a few tears for him, because he doesn't seem to have any male roll models in his life other than his dad, whom he talks about from time to time! I'm crying for him now! He seems to have no other male person at home to talk to.

He's a very bright kid, and I hope that he grows up to be a very good young responsible teenager and adult!!

Kids like this, I NEVER want to see become an adult. I'd want them to stay little forever!! They just look so cute! I can't help it, I'm so proud of him and I'm really attached to him as though he were my very own child!!! He just can't get enough of me!!