Personal Narrative: Why I Need To Connect With Children

I have been a preschool teacher, teaching mixed age children from 18 months to 5 years, for over 10 years. I started as a work study employee, while attending the Community College of Philadelphia in 2006, to a part-time teaching assistant while attending Temple University in 2010. This led me to a lead-teacher position after graduation and then to a program coordinator. I have developed effective working relationships with children in the past years. This position has helped me improve my teamwork and interpersonal skills by cooperating with other teachers in planning teaching materials according to the Reggio Emilia approach and by sharing teaching resources. I decided that working with children, understanding and assisting in their education,

My virtual family consists my partner and a daughter, Nameste Denell (Manis, 2014). The transition from being a couple to being a triad was a bumpy one (Manis, 2014). My partner and I have had some obstacles most of which had to do with money (Manis, 2014). We even contemplated divorce shortly after Nameste Denell was born (Manis, 2014). My partner worked full-time outside the home and I was a stay-at-home mom (Manis, 2014). Nameste Denell was three when Jasmine Leann came along (Manis, 2014). She looked forward to helping and playing with her baby sister (Manis, 2014). Soon after Jasmine Leann was born my partner and I saved enough money to move from our neighborhood, which was becoming overrun by crime (Manis, 2014). We bought

I gave birth to a baby girl named Stella (Manis, 2008). My boyfriend picked her name when I started the simulation, and I thought it was a good choice. Stella had a normal birth, which took about 10 hours. I gave birth naturally with my partner by my side. Stella and I bonded hormonally after about a week, though I chose not to breastfeed her. During her first weeks, Stella mostly slept. When she was awake, I took time to sing to her and rock her, as well as talking and playing her music. She had some trouble with feeding at the start, but after a while she began to enjoy mealtimes. Because my partner worked during the week, we would use disposable diapers during that time and cloth diapers on weekends. The parenting

Like many people everyone wants to find their calling and figure out where they belong. My parents moved to the United States risking their lives on a boat from Haiti but soon separated while in america . My mom did a great job raising four kids on her own and I being the second child took part in raising my two younger siblings. In elementary school I struggled in many subjects but excelled in art, when I finally learned to read and went to middle school my grades were high enough to have honors reading and social study classes and even apa classes in highschool. I continued to excel in a lot of my classes, turns out I was smarter than I thought and all I need to do was learn to read and have people who took the time to teach me.

Maybe I was too little, or maybe I was too short, but either way I did not make the jump. In the second grade I was your average eight year old, who always wore her hair in ponytails, and enjoyed playing tag at recess. One day I saw the fifth graders on the monkey bars at recess doing something I had never seen before, they were jumping to the fourth bar. I waited untill Kids Inc. that day to try the jump, but it was no use I was acting like a scared baby.

Anais brought her daughter, Ana, to the Houston newborn photography studio today. These two had one of my favorite sessions between parent and child. They were so connected and playful. They were like best friends who love each other's company.

Preschool was really cool I made a few friends I remembered their faces but not too many memories. One thing that stood out was when I had to get my mouth washed out with soap it was the worst thing ever I can still the taste of the soap as I type this, yuck. Cleaned my mouth up literally and figuratively. I can remember graduation from preschool I was super excited but I think my mother was much more excited than I. She was so happy and smiling so big I can tell she was proud of me to this day she has that same feeling as I accomplish things in my life now.

According to Granovetter, whether a tie is strong or not is dependent on four factors: amount of time spent together, emotional intensity, intimacy, and reciprocity of services. I tend to define my personal networks as with lots of weak ties, and a few strong ties. Strong ties offer me emotional support and huge favors, and weak ties are good information sources.

Every day at school working with kindergarten children filled with lesson’s around the student’s interest, passions, and abilities. We as educators recognize when our student is falling behind in learning, so with taking advantage of every teachable moment imagine how far the student could go in this world. In my eleven years working with kindergarten children, I have had experience working children with ADHD. They run around or climb, have trouble paying attention to a task for more than a few minutes, not seem to listen when spoken to, and easily distracted, and don’t follow instructions no matter how clearly you present them.

I have extensive experience working with youth through 4-H, the largest youth development organization in the country, focusing on leadership, citizenship, and community service. For three years I was a counselor for the 6th-8th grade WI 4-H Space Camp trip to Huntsville, Alabama. I led activities that provided an energetic, engaged, and inclusive experience during bus travel and camp. I also counseled individual students who were homesick or had conflicts with other students. I also served as a youth project leader, leading a bi-weekly horticulture lesson and hands-on project for students in 1st - 7th grade. This lesson became one of the most popular projects. For this work I was awarded a senior leadership award.

Goal 2: During day 4 and rest of the field placement, participated in responsibilities in the childcare assuming responsibility of the agency supervising teacher facilitating giving comfort attachment and secure to the verbal and nonverbal communication.

During this stage my son is practicing self-control. He gets along with others but not if they take his toys away. He defends his own toys since he is not willing to share. So far I try to encourage with sharing but I do not want to force him. I would damage our trust in my point of view. I am authoritative, I allow him to get away with more things. I provide discipline but I support him on his behavior. I believe at the beginning I was a bit stricter with him but I realized he is just a baby and needs to explore and learn on his own. So I have been less strict with his rules. I believe my parenting styles come from my own family. My parents were strict when it came to rules, but I was able to be open with them because they supported me. In

During my initial meet with the 3-year-olds, I felt like a celebrity as the children swarmed in to catch ahold of my attention. I was bombarded with many hugs of sorts and lingering eyes filled with a sense of curiosity. There was one child, in particular, that caught my immediate attention. Her name is J, a 3-year-old child that was filled with energy and radiance. Though, many of her peers exhibited those traits as well. However, J was seemingly more complex to analyze in accordance to the developmental standards of her age group, in which triggered my peculiar interest. J was often quick, persistent, and took initiative when answering questions that I presented to the crowd to resolve. These questions pertained to Disney characters that

As a child, I experienced similar incorrect parenting habits from my parents. Spankings were the number one form of discipline in my house hold; “Go find me my belt” my father use to say when I was in trouble. The second form of discipline in my house hold; “Go to your room” my mother use to say before I would receive the spankings due to my bad behavior. Unsure how most of my parent’s disciplining methods affected me as a child, but looking back represents the behavior I plan on avoiding when I become a parent. I know breaking bad habits are not always easy; however, practice makes perfect. I hope I will not follow the same incorrect parenting habits that mine bestowed to me. I will try my best to not be a product of my own environment.

My first class set the stage and my expectation for this program. After taking Public Policy and Advocacy (509), I knew I wanted to be a servant leader. I engrossed myself in all types of literature referencing servant leaders. I listen to lectures from Sue Russell Executive Director of TEACH Early Childhood National Center. I started reading books by Robert Greenleaf “ The Servant Leader”. I listened to a countless amount of TEDx Talks of different types of servant leaders. My excitement quickly dwindled after taking Advanced Diverse Learners (508) and Leadership Theory and Behavior (554) which I loved both classes. These two classes were such an eye opener. I discovered that my passion, my career as an Early Childcare Educator was not