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.

 

Resource:

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Daily Supports

Through reading the description of this particular week's assignment, reflecting on the requirements posed a slight challenge. I chose to work from the end to the beginning on this assignment. I once attended an exhibit titled "Dialogue in the Dark" which was created by a group of individuals that were visually impaired. The exhibit was nearly an hour long and using your guide stick, visitors were instructed and guided through four different exhibits as a visually impaired individual. I initially became fearful because I was covered with darkness, not a light in sight was made available. My eyes were open but still couldn't see a thing. Our four exhibits consisted of going to a grocery store and shopping for groceries with real fruit; another exhibit consisted of going to a beach and getting on a sail boat; the third exhibit consisted of walking through a park; and our last exhibit was crossing a very busy intersection. Utilizing each of my senses was vital but more importantly my other senses became more alert/ sharp.

From this exhibit and life changing experience, I would say the challenges that I may slightly be posed with as a visually impaired individual are not far from the ability to see. I would miss seeing the Earth change, the flowers blossom, the vibrant colors or the world. On a day to day basis, with countless objectives on one day's agenda, we at times overlook the actual "support" whether big or small. As I reflect, I can denote having small conversations with my mother and father gives me a boost of excitement or joy. When arriving to school/work and receiving hugs from my students make me feel as though I am needed, it's nothing like a good hug to make you feel appreciated. There have been times where unexpected expenses arrive and having supportive parents to help when help is needed is wonderful support. I find support to be defined as a means of vine supporting a stem, or roots supporting a stem so that the stem may allow the flower to blossom. Support in my opinion are a group of arms intertwined together strong never unbending and unyielding and rooted strongly to lift one person at a time to the next step or next level. Support in my opinion is pulling one person at a time to venture even further than anticipated. "It takes a village."

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Hello

My Abby American Girl doll

 

 

Leggo's and boy did I have an imagination

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 way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold," Joseph C. Pearce.

 

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

 

 

Leggo's to play….I had a fine imagination

 

 

 

 

Child Development and Public Health: Immunization

I decided to investigate and concentration on the pending issues of immunization. Speaking with a great friend of mine that recently obtained her MPH from Drexel University gave me a wealth of insight from her extensive research on child development and the leading concerns that have been occurring in our society for centuries. According to research, tremendous controversy remains at large of vaccinations assisting or affecting children and their developmental progress physically, mentally, and emotionally. The two potentially conflicting values in this controversy are beginning with the desire to eliminate disease yet, the desire of parents to protect their children from damage. For decades it's been know for children's vaccines to pose risk as well as non vaccinations and diseases to do the same-pose risk. Parents are struggling to make hard decisions in a medical questioning routine and extensive vaccination to the extent public health laws propose enforced vaccination.

For as early as the 1920's, studies on the risks of vaccines began when a smallpox vaccination program caused an outbreak of encephalitis, [an inflammation of the brain, usually caused by a viral infection], and secondary result of Guillain-Barre Syndrome, an ascending paralysis ending in death. The polio virus produces a breakdown of the myelin sheath, called poliomyelitis, [a severe infectious viral disease, usually affecting children or young adults, that inflames the brainstem and spinal cord, sometimes leading to loss of voluntary movement and muscular wasting], which results in paralysis. Encephalitis, whether caused through disease or as a result of vaccination, can cause demyelization of the nerves.

This particular topic grew greatly sensitive to my interest due to the lack of knowing the serious interventions in how vaccines may indeed assist as well as affect the lives of our children. Prior to researching this topic, I was fully unaware of the possible association of autism and how this mental illness may have a direct association with various vaccines. For example, the FDA, CDC, and other government agencies are aware that there very well may be a connection between children's vaccines and autism spectrum disorders or other neurological developmental disorders. What appears to be happening is that that there is continually more recent research that is showing that there might be a connection between childhood vaccinations and autism spectrum disorders. If an understandable concern is revealed that there might be a connection between autism, or other developmental disorders and children's vaccines, anxiety could lead to concerned parents withdrawing their children from the mandatory schedule for routine vaccinations, which could eventually lead to epidemic or even pandemic cases of other childhood diseases such as measles.

On a holistic global approach to this pending and growing concern, The Global Immunization Vision and Strategy (GIVS), estimates that by vaccinating 90 percent of the world's children against 14 illnesses for which there are vaccines (diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, measles, polio, tuberculosis, hepatitis B, Hib disease, rubella, meningococcal disease, pneumococcal disease, rotavirus, and, where applicable, Japanese encephalitis and yellow fever), another two million child deaths could be prevented. (www.scientificamerican.com)

I find that whether or not vaccinations may or could possibly inflict disorders within our children, the more children and adults that are vaccinated, the less likelihood of various outbreaks will be found in commonplaces such as schools, hospitals, churches, etc,.

 

To learn more on children immunization/vaccinations please visit the following resources:

• www.cdc.gov
  
• www.scientificamerican.com
  

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