My supports

In my life I have many different supports that mean everything to me.....


My Parents

They support me in everything I do even when they do not agree. They are rooting for me as well as being my shoulder to lean on. My parents worked hard so I could have a good life, and a even better education. I love them for that. It is not very often when a family does what my family does for me. Even when they are not physically doing something they are a constant voice in my head that has showed me what it is to be responsible that is a lesson that has taken me very far. I  am not afraid of failure, but I use it as a learning lesson.

My friends

They are a support to me because I do not live in the same city as my family so they have become my local shoulders to learn on. They encourage me when I may want to give up. They keep me company, they feed me, and they care so much about me. It is very important to be a part of a winning circle of friends.





Without any of my supports I would be lost. I do not have children so you need positive people in your life to love, and that love you. I thank god everyday for the people that are in my life.

My Connections To Play

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.”
― Plato

It is a happy talent to know how to play.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
 This toy allowed  to imagine what you were seeing. It was at the zoo or at the circus. We looked at shots of movies, and imagined what happened next.

                                                                                                These toys of the 80s opened up free play either you played alone or with a friend

Playing to be a doctor was fun. We learned to role play. We imagined we would be doctors as we grew up. We dreamed, and had aspirations.



 

 

As a young child my parents, and other adults encouraged play. When we got together with our friends our parents would tell us to go somewhere, and play. We enjoyed it we normally wanted to get together just to play with each other. Playing was the role that a child played.

 

Play in 2014 is so different. Kids do not like to go outside, and play that lack the wont to be physical. Children also lack imagination. If you take a modern day group of children, and say go play they probably will not know what to do. In the past we would play tag, chase each other anything to have fun, and laugh.

 

Throughout life play is essential. As a get older the appropriate amount of play time changes. We have find appropriate times to be playful because we have things that we are now responsible for such as career, home, and family.

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

I put this picture because one day I was online, and I found it. It reminds me of how often we forget to live in the moment and enjoy what we have going on now. We have a tendency to run ahead of ourselves. We need to be proud of what they do today not what they may do in the future.

Week 4

         I want to first start my post off by saying hello to everyone. This has been a long week for me,

 and I can not wait till our holiday vacation starts. This week I looked over the many choices that we

 had on the list. I can say that I have been very blessed to have the childhood that I have. My parents

 have worked really hard so that me, and my siblings had everything that we needed as well as things

 that we did not need. We have also been very fortunate to be well supervised by our parents which

 kept us safe.

         My post is about my mother, and her childhood. My mother was not as fortunate to

 have a  childhood like she help provide us. My grandparents were poor farmers who had seven

 children. They lived in a small home, and practically lived off the land. My mother said that her

childhood made her sad lacking some of basic needs at times.

        I stayed home and researched stats in the US. More than 16.1 million children in America are poor, but they live in working families. Most of the impoverished families are Black and Latino. Children of impoverished homes lag behind their peers in many ways other than just their family income: They are less healthy because of malnutrition. They are often emotionally and intellectually damaged.  Poor children also are likely to become the poor parents of the future due to stats. It is really to see that one of the richest countries has citizens that are poor, and working.

                                                             SIDS

SIDS is Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. I picked this topic because it is very dear to me because I lost a family member to this. It is was very hurtful to see my cousin go thru this situation. They went thru a constant battle of blaming each, and themselves. SIDS can happen to any child of any race. Also during this time you will get questioned by the authorities which is very difficult to deal with during a time of loss. It hurt me so much to see my cousin cry about a child that she dreamed about most of her life.

I looked at many different  resources it said that sids happens all over the world. The WHO- world health organization stores the information. It also notes that SIDS can be controlled by the way your infant is laid to rest.

Hello Everyone,

I do not have any children of my own so this is my friends story. She has two children. her first child was a natural vaginal delivery that lasted 4 hours start to finish. She went in at 930 am leaking fluid and her daughter Kiahanna was born at 135 8 lbs even 1 day before her due date. Her 5 year old's delivery was so much different she was induced on a Friday she was 38 weeks at the time she did not deliver till Sunday. Her son Karon was 9 lbs 2oz.

In a country in Angagen a small village in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. These women give birth in their mother's houses. They have water which will later be used to clean the mother and child off. They have a bamboo knife which they will use to cut their own cord. They also deliver their own babies.

While I was searching online I stumble across these sites as very beneficial tool for parents, grandparents, and educators with children. When it comes to raises and educating children help is very necessary.
www.nasponline.org
www.hhs.gov/children
http://www.familiesalive.org/