Relationship Reflection

Relationships/partnerships are important to me because it helps strengthen my physical, emotional, and mental health. There is strong evidence that supports that healthy relationships or partnerships are related to people's health. Those who are alone and/or isolated from people tend to have a higher risk of obesity, high blood pressure, heart disease, and other diseases and illnesses. 

I have positive relationships with my 3 year old son, Gabriel. I have relationships with my extended family. I am now developing a relationship with my birth mother. I have good relationships with my college friends as well as my childhood friends from my hometown. I talk to my college friends almost everyday, and I try to talk to my childhood friends at least once a week. I keep in touch with the people in my life through phone calls, texts, social media such as Twitter and Facebook. 

I believe to keep any type of relationship or partnership together, there has to be some type of communication. You may not always agree with the people that you have relationships with, but with communication compromises can be helpful for any situation. 

I believe that communication is essential when working in early childhood education because as an educator, much interaction will be done between teacher-child, teacher-parent, and parent-child. With good communication, as a future educator I can help those families and children who need the resources to achieve their long and short term goals. 

Children's Quotes

"Children are great imitators. So give them something great to imitate."   - Anonymous

This quote is so right on. For instance, my 3 year old is imitating every single word, sound, motion, and movement someone say or does. His brain is a sponge literally. I have to remind my friends and including myself to make sure that we do not say anything inappropriate because my son will say exactly what you say now. As adults, we have to be mindful of what we say and do because children watch us constantly. If our children are watching us, don't we want them to pick up the good qualities of us? When we show our children the correct way to talk and behave, then we can truly say that we are good role models. I think this generation that is coming up are lacking good role models in the home, school, and the rest of the community. I strive everyday to be a great role model for my son to imitate so that he can make mommy and himself proud. Ask yourself if you are parent, relative, or educator, are you being a good role model for the children to imitate.