My Daily Supports

According to resources, support has various meanings such as to uphold in aiding, helping, or serve as a foundation for.  In my personal opinion, I believe support is merely the ability to endure or conquer without a situation or circumstance overcoming, exhausting, or changing your character, but more importantly to sustain. 

As I reflect on my lifestyle, I honestly don’t realize the many sources of support that sustain my life and keep me balanced.  My parents and sisters are a major emotional support factor in my life.  You know the saying “When the chips are down”, well my family circle is extremely close and we diligently maintain efforts to support one another in all possible factors.  Running daily errands, and in my case as the youngest daughter of three, my parents continually give reference to practicality in my life.  Due to the constant changes in the economy, I have found myself being a source of support for my parents; my father lost his job and for the past six months I have been a source of monetary support for my family and really have been humbled through this entire process.  Having the resources as a teacher and relocating closer to home has made overcoming and sustaining their lifestyle a learning experience.  Physical support comes within; I have always challenged myself to be the best I can be and even so be more that what I am.  I’ve always challenged myself to physically be fit and observing MY vision in others helps motivate me. 

Imagining myself with challenges that I currently do not live with frightens me.  I currently do not have any children nor am married.  I have three nieces (Madison, Macy and Malia) and a nephew (Aiden).  I believe I’ve received the WORLD’S BEST AUNT AWARD!! Visualizing a challenge that I do not currently live with would have to be having a child out of wedlock and caring for another life on my own.  My hat goes off to mothers that care for a second life while maintaining their previous lifestyle.  Managing time, efforts in organization, feeding for another, and simply caring for another life poses a challenge. 

I am thankful for the support factors in my life and am very humbled with each component that makes my life complete.

My Connection to Play

I found this blog to be essentially relative to my personality in terms of how play has assisted my life. In my early years, our society was open and more child friendly to going outside and playing with the neighbors children at exceedingly well their house. I could remember all the neighborhood children together and playing is sweet harmony. Children were less behavior issues during these times and performed exceedingly well in the academic arena. In the public health sector, the percentage of children developing adult like diseases and or health concerns such as obesity, hypertension, even the rarest of diabetes was not known to have been developed unless of course it was hereditary. The late great Confucius once said, "It is better to play than do nothing." Nowadays, children resort to less physical and more entertainment, and not creating their entertainment. Technology, computers, video games, have swept the minds of our children and health demands have risen. Plato once said, "You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."

 

I'm still a kid at heart. I love playing in the snow and running through the sprinklers. I could never grow old J

 

"Play is the only wawy the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold" ~ Joseph C. Pearce.

 

 

 

My Addy American Girl doll (I read every book in the collection)

 

 

 

Leggo's to play and continue unfolding a strong imagination.

 

    

Getting to Know Your International Contact

Through viewing the "Global Children's Initiative" I gained much information in respect to international initiatives in response to children's health and development. One initiative with wonderful insight is the "Children in Crisis and Conflict Situations". This initiative focuses on the extensive experience in working with emergency situations and managing the well-being of children whether the crisis is due to a natural disaster or man-made crisis. Through this initiative focusing on children that may be subject to malnutrition is the mere focus. The "Child Mental Health" initiative concerns on significant issues and implications for problems within and across the country in bridging the gap in developing and evaluating family based strategies to prevent mental health problems in children. Lastly, in the "Early Childhood Development" segment, the efforts to expanding effective interventions to improve preschool quality are one of the main focal points.

I found this information enlightening due to never fully realizing the growing number of natural disasters and how the percentage of children suffering from malnutrition is becoming a leading concern with child development.

Sharing Web Resources

Throughout the course of this eight (8) week class, one of the best website that I've found enriching is the site: www.childrensdefense.org. This web site is compelling in the means of providing resources for advocating for children and providing resources for such persons to advocate and support children's welfare. I believe the entire website has very relevant information concerning my current and professional development. These reasons are due to one day working to ultimately becoming a child advocate attorney. The mere bases of this website are in relation to advocating for American children focusing on poor and minority children and children with disabilities.

As of this week, I found information regarding children with pre-existing health conditions that can no longer be denied health coverage. Founded by Marian Wright Edleman and Hillary Thomas Clinton, these two women give me relative hope for my future and success.

 

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