My Supports

My Supports

The support system that I have consist of my Religion, my husband, my father, my mother, family, and my pastor. These people provide support by believing in me when I fail to believe in myself. There are constantly there to encourage me when I feel all hope is lost or I just can't get together. They tell me my wrongs, even when I don't want to hear them because they know they I am more capable of accomplishing of what I put out. The benefits of these supports is just having people around you with the same goals and values, and I began to fall, they are there with encouraging words to pick me up again. It would be hard to exist without the support of God, my husband, and my mother. These are the three that keep me going the most, and that I look forward to each and everyday of my life. If I lost these three, I would have a life in shambles because I would have lost all morals and values. Not following God's word causes us to lose moral and values and that would impact my life in a very bad way. Not having my husband and mother will be devastating as well because they mean everything to me, and if I look forward to no one else, I look forward to them.

This is not an imaginative challenge but a realistic one. I have the GACE coming up on Friday, and it is very, very, very, important to me because this is the teacher certification test. I have told all the people of importance of me about this test and those who have know will give their support, which are the people listed above. They all have been given me encouraging words, which has really help to build confidence within myself. There are times when my faith gets a little shaky, but then I remember what I am taught, and what I have conquered, and I believe again. Having these supports in my life help me to know that all things are possible, and it is a daily motivation to keep grinding and going hard to make something big of myself. Without these supports at this present moment, it will be hard to even fathom taking this test on Friday, because I will constantly doubt myself. This is way I am forever grateful to have them in my life. If they weren't I would probably be a lost soul. 

My connections to play

 Of all the quotes that were inspiring of play, I found these two to be the most inspirational to me of how I viewed play growing up and now as an adult. 

Essential play items for me growing up involved Dolls, Dolls, and more Dolls. I can remember cutting up old socks to create clothes for them. We also played school together, and I treated them as if they were my own real life children. As I watch my daughter play with her dolls, I see the cycle continuing, all the things I did she is doing them now. Here are a few items that I played with in my childhood:

As any other child, play helped me to re-enact things that I experienced in childhood or either witnessed in childhood. Growing up, my mom had no problems watching me play, in fact she encouraged it. She would buy the dolls for me to play with, and any old socks that she did not use,she would offer them to me for the clothes. As I watch my daughter and son pretend play, I noticed that it has evolved a lot. Children now-a-days watch other children on youtube play, and they then re-enact what they see. This is how most of my kids play and other times they initiate play amongst themselves. I was the only child and occasionally had others to play with so seeing them play together is a step up from me. 

Play is still just as important in adulthood as it was in childhood. Once you lose the notion to play with your children, it opens up doors for them to find other avenues such as playing outdoors alone, online chatrooms, and other things that are dangerous. It is important to always play with your children and stay woke to what they are doing. There are to many children going missing, and no one knows where they are.