My Supports

Support that I have would be my family. My family includes my, now, husband, mother and my child's Godmother.  Without these few, it would be very difficult for me to complete a work week, not even considering the extra curriculum activities. I would always be extremely stress and lonely.

My challenge would be to not have any close relatives. I would have very limited time to do school work, or anything, but be mother. I would not be as independent. I also would not have learned as much about myself.

My Connections to Play

“Children learn as they play. Most importantly, in play children learn how to learn.” – O. Fred Donaldson

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” – George Bernard Shaw

As a child I was allowed to play long and hard. Of course we had to make sure it was not during the hottest parts of the day and not on punishment. Lol I remember my cousins and I used t play and imagine many things until the sun went down and the mosquitos came trying to bite as many times as possible. We had to then move to the house where we had to be more contained, but we still managed to have things everywhere.

Play these days involve many video games. When we were growing up, there were games like "mother may I", 

"red light green light" "freeze tag" and "hide and seek."

  Play is something that is always rekindled when me and childhood friends get together or with cousins. It gives ways of realizing how much you have grown and changed. I know I am always told that I am still the same and as genuine as I used to be and most of all VERY SILLY TEHEHE.

Relationship Reflection

Relationships are important to me because it gives me meaning to life. Without these people I would be alone and have no one to share my life with. The two people that I spend the most time with now are my fiancé and my firstborn Mackenzie.  These two are my world. There are not any words that can explain the love that I have for my child. I now look at love from so many perspectives, I am  a stronger person because of her.  Antoine is my fiancé and I can say without him stepping in and taking care of a child that did he did not father means a great deal to me and it is commendable. Without him my child would not have male figure in her life and for that I am grateful. My stepdad was the man who raised me and I am happy to have had him in my life, I am just even more ecstatic about the fact that my daughter has the same.

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Other positive relationships that I have are with my mother and sister. Those are not always positive and take great deal of work. From not being heard, to being ignored. for the most part I feel that I am the middle person since my grandmother has passed.  My child seems to be the glue that holds everyone together, she is the reason we are closer now that ever, it takes a great deal of work. Some challenges we face are finding a common ground for us all to stand on. Sometimes we have to agree to disagree. My ability to keep trying and try different approaches make me feel like I have what it takes to persevere in early childhood education. The relationships I deal with in everyday life is what make me ready to deal with many different obstacles pertaining to relationships.