Gestures like that of this teacher make us believe in the goodness and good predisposition of people towards others. Darryn Willoughby is a professor at the University of Waco, Texas, with ten years of experience, who, seeing that the baby of 4 months and a half of her student had started to cry, did not hesitate a second to take her in his arms to calm her down and continue the lesson.
Katy Humphrey, Millie's student and mother, had a problem that day to leave the girl with her caregiver and had no one to stay with her. The teacher had already warned the mother that if one day she had a problem, she could attend with the girl to class, so since it was a class that did not want to miss the class, she decided to take her.
But as usual, young children sometimes get bored, feel angry, get angry, protest and cry. And so that the mother did not lose her class having to leave the classroom to calm her baby, the teacher He didn't hesitate to hold her in his arms during the 55 minutes his class lasted, while continuing the lesson with total naturalness.
How many teachers do that? Few, very few. Being a mother and student at the same time is not an easy task. Compatibility of motherhood with university studies can be very complicated for a woman who does not have any support, and what the teacher has done understanding the mother and comforting the girl has been exemplary. I wish all teachers had that empathy with their students, and the whole society will support motherhood in that way.
Katy has an hour's journey to the University where she studies to graduate as a physical therapist. After having spent 14 years in the Marines, he decided that this was the path he wanted to follow, although he knew it would not be easy with a little girl.
