Wk-3-Blog Assignment: Getting to Know Your International Contacts

The three to four resources from the website I choose insights about conveyed insights that consist of “the Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Center’s page” included the following Alternative websites;

 “Challenges for the convention in the 21 Century” and The State of the world’s Children Second Addition“ (http://www.unicef.org/rightsite/sowc/fullreport.php), in connections to,

(http://www.unicef.org/rightsite/sowc/pdfs/SOWC_Spec%20Ed_CRC_Main%20Report_EN_090409.pdf) p.71

In my readings I found issues and trends the rural people where challenge by and I like to share at least three insights or ideas that I gained from studying the websites were about the

 “Climate Change and Rights” (http://www.unicef.org/rightsite/sowc/pdfs/SOWC_Spec%20Ed_CRC_Main%20Report_EN_090409.pdf) p.71

In Sharing with my colleagues what I have learned so far from these exchanges (or from the websites)

In most rural family’s children in the regional areas of the countries or held victims of unfair treatment of their civil rights and complex challenges endure upon issues of poor living conditions that are at risk due to poverty that affects their life cause bad health to survival in growth and development, protection and participation in education are a big concern facing issues and trends in the regional country of South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa and other urban countries who children and families are at risk in the international and nation that are affected by the climate change. Also, children vulnerability is affected by the impacted of the climate conditions towards their health, education and mental and physical well-being in which their livelihood is in danger or impacted by suffering from the environmental hazards within their living conditions that they are exposed within their daily lives. The following affects of the harmful climate change affects their Physiological and cognitive development. Therefore, the children well-being is in state due to infections more than adults due to their sensitivity are vulnerable to strong ultraviolet radiation, poor shelter and outdoor air pollution from biomass fuel. The children growth and development is impacted by mental and physical which can cause impairments, disease, infections, under nutrition, acute respiratory, diarrhea, malaria and other vector-borne diseases. Furthermore, “in 2007, studies estimated that 46 countries with a total population of 27 billion people, may face a greater risk due from violent conflicts, social economic and political stresses that intersects with the climate conditions. For instance, the drought, flooding caused poor physical infrastructure and lack systems to cope with climate change in the areas in where they live. However, most of the time death’s among children were under 5 years old. According to research “many of the main killers where children who suffer from under nutrition which contributes to more than one third of all children under-five deaths” (p.65)

(http://www.unicef.org/rightsite/sowc/pdfs/SOWC_Spec%20Ed_CRC_Main%20Report_EN_090409.pdf)

According to research “ In 2007 children suffer consequences of psychosocial trauma, recruitment which lead to forces of displacements and forced migration which may in turn lead to family separation and exposure to trafficking and exploitation.” (p71)“Also, last but not least, the evidence strongly suggests that the climate change will make achieving the millennium development goals even more difficult, because children will be the ones who may need to support household income, making it more difficult for them especially girls, to attend school. (p.65)

“Furthermore, In 2008 there is an” increasing scarcity of water and other natural resources will place an even greater burden on girls and women, who undertake most of the household fuel and water collection. “And the cost of mitigating climate change may leave less money for social spending on health, education, and other social protection programmers.”(p.65) “ In 2008, under 18s accounted for 47 percent of the world’s 49 least development countries, compared with 21 per cent in industrialized countries.” (p.65)

(http://www.unicef.org/rightsite/sowc/pdfs/SOWC_Spec%20Ed_CRC_Main%20Report_EN_090409.pdf)p.71

In Describing my new insights and information about issues of poverty

I learned that the convention on the human rights of the children passed a treaty and law that consist of four base core principles nation and international which protects the human rights of all children regardless of their culture, age, sex, race, disability, and ethnic background or socioeconomic status and social progress that is effected by poverty. Also, the treaty was signed by 70 countries and the local legislature and government worldwide, in which  place children rights to be the forefront of the legislature base on civil, political, cultural social, economic rights encouraging friendly budget initiatives, and influence an increase usage of children’s rights of language to be influence and focus upon policies programs and advocacy for the children civil rights is to ensure and secure a healthy, educational and social protection in order to save the children worldwide, national, local and within industrialized countries.

Furthermore, I learned the children and their families who live in regional country of South Asia and Sub-Sahara learned about their equal rights and protection. According to updates “On 20 November 2009, the global community celebrates the 20th anniversary of the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the unique document that sets international standards for the care, treatment and protection of all individuals below age 18. To celebrate this landmark, the United Nations Children’s Fund is dedicating a special edition of its flagship report The State of the World’s Children to examining the Convention’s evolution, progress achieved on child rights, challenges remaining, and actions to be taken in account  and to ensure that its promise becomes a reality for all children.”

 (http://www.unice forg/rightsite/sowc/fullreport.php)

However, the children learned “regardless of the unbearable climate conditions their focus on how to survive, believe, have faith stand up for their equal right was to not give up. The children and their families endure a lot to live as human beings but was treated so unfair by their country.. However, no matter what challenges they may had to  face or hard times or pain that came their  way in order for them to survive they  new they had to stand firm regardless of the  under suffering. Why? Because it’s their  right to be treated with respect and dignity.” Therefore, the children and their families endure what is called survival, faith, and belief within their livelihood upon unlivable conditions of the climate changes to survive as individual to have civil rights, health, protection, and participation in education. In other words it takes self courage to stand up for what you believe in life. I learn that most people will do whatever it take to survive are get what they want. Furthermore, everyone should have a choice in life and no or nothing is wroth losing your life over that is why everyone should respect each other human rights as a person. Also, put them self in the other person shoes before making judgments. In other words, treat a person the way you would like to be treated. I believe everyone should be treated with respect and dignity in life and as a human being who deserves equal rights. “The Progress on Survival and Development Rights” (p.2)
(http://www.unice forg/rightsite/sowc/fullreport.php)

Reference:

http://www.unicef.org/rightsite/sowc/fullreport.php

http://www.unicef.org/rightsite/sowc/pdfs/SOWC_Spec%20Ed_CRC_Main%20Report_EN_090409.pdf) (p.71)

“Climate Change and Rights” (http://www.unicef.org/rightsite/sowc/pdfs/SOWC_Spec%20Ed_CRC_Main%20Report_EN_090409.pdf)( p.71)

http://www.unicef.org/rightsite/sowc/pdfs/SOWC_SpecEd_CRC_ExecutiveSummary_EN_091009.pdf (p.2)

Sharing Web Resources

Provide the name and link for the organization you selected, and a brief description of the organization’s focus, (zero to three)

This article initially speaks about the well-being of Infants and Toddlers being able to think in a school setting and having the necessities in their lives. To succeed in high quality learning and fulfilling their individual needs to consist of the polices and practices within their school environment and throughout their lives. It spoke on the understanding, communication, nurturing, guidance, nutrition, health, support, respect in relationship to concentrate with others socially and emotionally in a school or home environment that will provide in a safe positive encouraging atmosphere. Why? It is important for the children and families to receive resources that will strengthen their lives in learning capabilities.  Furthermore, their well-being socially and emotionally by ensuring a secure and healthy high quality affective learning throughout their individual lives. Also, “the main focus is to develop good health, strong family support and ensuring positive early learning experiences within their lives through out adulthood.”

(Zero to Three: Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families. (2010).

According to research “the main focus is to develop good health, strong family support and ensuring positive early learning experiences within their lives through out adulthood.” (Zero to Three: Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families. (2010).

Furthermore, the main focus is to also establish polices and practices  and strong family support to provide mental and physical resources to help infants ad toddler’s to excel and retain and gain affective quality learning through out their earliest years of growth and development and through out their lives. Therefore, from zero –three years is the most critical time the growth and development of a infant and child brain to retain information and to grow up healthy and ready to learn too think, speak and reason. Furthermore, in order for a child during their first three years of life to experience the brain undergoes dramatic development that process how well a child think, speak and reason to have the  ability become socially and emotionally healthy and knowledgeable in school and through out their lives. In order words, the child life experience within a positive environment lays down the foundation of their capabilities of how their brain functions to become successful and skillful in academics. For instance, if the child life is impacted by healthy safe and positive learning environment then the child will grows up to be interesting in learning and will grow up to be a positive productive citizen within their community and society through out their individual lives within their community and society. According to research, “Our knowledge of the early years has been significantly enhanced by the incredible advances made by neuroscientists who have found that the way a baby reacts emotionally to how he or she is treated releases chemicals that affect his or her brain’s structure and functioning. In addition, when experiences fail to support an infant’s or toddlers biologically inherent desire to learn, grow, and succeed, “a child’s motivation diminishes, shifts, or finds problematic outlets.” (Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families. (2010).Infant-toddler policy agenda. Retrieved May 26, 2010)

Provide the name and link for the international website you selected, and a brief description of the organization’s focus( Australia )

The (ECA) Early Childhood Australia main focus and vision is to be an effective advocate for young children and a champion for quality outcomes in early childhood education and child care' services to promote and protect the rights of young children who are having issues or concerns. Also, ECA provides quality education and child care services as an advocacy organization and champion acting in position to provide the well-being of young children in early childhood by being a voice for those in the early childhood field. For example, the ECA address the issues, rights and well-being of all children who have concerns. According to, the ECA We particularly recognize the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and their

Families, acknowledging past and current injustices and realities around Australia, and we challenge ourselves to work for true Reconciliation. In other words, their vision is to provide effective quality care and services by being a champion to ensure positive outcomes for the well-being of young children by identifying and promoting polices and practices for change in the lives of young children in the early childhood. For instance, the ECA provide social justice for the best interest by providing the necessary campaign for change in children lives by providing equal opportunities and support to protect their rights where they can work and speak independently. ” Leadership

We stand out as proactive champions for young children. We provide an independent focus and voice for advocacy, understanding, energy and change for ECA members, for others in the early childhood sector and for interested people in the wider community. Also, Social inclusion we believe that all infants and children should have access to relationships, experiences and services which support their well being in the present, promote their healthy growth, development and learning and will facilitate their participation in our society. It is the responsibility of our society to address this and this often requires differential approaches to resources and programs for both children and adults.” (ECA Value Statements-September 2010 Page 2/2)

In addition, the “Australian ECEC quality was found to be broadly similar to that in the United States and United Kingdom: slightly weaker in terms of the developmental appropriateness of classroom practices assessed through ECERS-R, slightly stronger than the United States in the areas of classroom organization and instructional support.”(Australasian Journal of Early Childhood – Volume 38 No 2 June 2013)

Identify one current issue/trend from the newsletter and/or from the website that caught your attention

"SNAICC has expressed its concerns at the Australian Government’s plan to defund the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services (NATSILS) and the National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples. ... NATSILS said in a Media Release, the funding cuts will mean that even more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples will not be able to access essential legal services and will further entrench Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as second-class citizens in their own country. In further budget cuts, the National Family Violence Prevention and Legal Service (NFVPLS) is expecting to lose $3.5m in funding over the next three years. SNAICC has expressed its concerns at the Australian Government’s plan to defund the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services (NATSILS) and the National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples. Also, “The Government has also flagged that its funding for the National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples (Congress) will not continue beyond June 2014.”
(SNAICC NEWS: DEFUNDING OF NATSILS AND CONGRESS RAISES MAJOR http://www.snaicc.org.au/news-events/fx-view-article.cfm?loadref=32&id=1311)
I feel this is a very critical concern as far as the families who have children who rights need to be protected of their civil rights. If the Australian Government’s plan to cut the  funding of the people the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services (NATSILS) and the National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples will have more crimes and the children well-being will be effected by the Government decision. In other words their will be injustices and no social justices to protect the rights of the children and families who live in Australia.

Share if there was anything else you learned from studying these resources related to the topic of this week

The Partners in the Global Alliance for the Education of Young Children are organizations outside the United States who share NAEYC’s National Association for the Education Young Children provide a commitment for children to be excellence in education. The link in which I choose to study about in the course for the foundation of early childhood development address issues and trends about the public policy and the well-being of young children to have an opportunity to excel in the program for early childhood programs and establish an investment in the care of a healthy safe environment in connections to building positive relationship and partnership that engage in educational achievement throughout young children lives.

The Global Alliance of NAEYC has e-mail addresses for early childhood professionals worldwide.
http://www.naeyc.org/resources/partnership/globalalliance

According to “The Global Alliance for the Education of Young Children should be provided an opportunity for early childhood associations from countries throughout the world to distribute materials and share information about programs and services, so that members of the participating organizations will have access to a greater range of early childhood resources. Also, when experiences fail to support an infant’s or toddlers biologically inherent desire to learn, grow, and succeed, “a child’s motivation diminishes, shifts, or finds problematic outlets.” Therefore, ensuring that babies have good health, strong families, and positive early learning experiences will lay the foundation for success throughout their lives.”

References
Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families. (2010). Infant-toddler policy agenda. Retrieved May 26, 2010, http://main.zerotothree.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ter_pub_infanttodller

Early Childhood Australia: The Australian Early Childhood Advocacy Organization
http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/
(Newsletter: http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/contact_us/mailing_list.html )

Early Childhood Australia: The Australian Early Childhood Advocacy Organization
http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/
(Newsletter: http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/contact_us/mailing_list.html )

SNAICC NEWS: DEFUNDING OF NATSILS AND CONGRESS RAISES MAJOR CONCERNS – News  SNAICC News: Defunding of NATSILS and Congress raises major concerns [SNAICC: Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care]
http://www.snaicc.org.au/news-events/fx-view-article.cfm?loadref=32&id=1311

http://www.naeyc.org/resources/partnership/globalalliance

Ready—Establishing Professional Contacts and Expanding Resources

Ready—Establishing Professional Contacts and Expanding Resources

Part 1, Establishing Professional Contacts

For Part 1,  I established four contacts from the early childhood professionals outside the United States using the websites to generate contacts placed in the Resources for the Blog Assignment section.

In addition, I clicked on the links to four websites through which I felt was interesting to me and hopefully to you that I was able to generate contacts from that were placed in the Resources list for Blog Assignment section as follow:

The Global Alliance of NAEYC and UNICEF which has e-mail addresses for early childhood professionals worldwide in which I used as follow;

Federal Republic of Nigeria Niger Delta Academic Foundation
Daniel Ibigoni Semeniworima, Director/CEO
Ajoke International School
Mrs.Bimbo Are
New Jericho G.R.A.
P.O.Box 679, Dugbe, Ibadan Nigeria
Tel: 080-23236933
Email: arebimbo@yahoo.com

Germany German National Committee for Early Childhood Education
Mrs. Eva-Hammes-Di Bernardo
Secretary: Ms. Ulrike Konrad-Ristau
E-mail: agj@agj.de
E-mail: ulrike.konrad-ristau@agj.de

Hungary         Ec-Pec Foundation
Eva Deak
Email: deakeva@ecpec.hu
Country Web Site: http://www.unicef.gr

Athens National Committee	Mail address		Hellenic National Committee for UNICEF    8, A. Dimitriou & 37, J. Kennedy Streets 161 21 Kaisariani-Athens Greece
	Visitors' address		8, A. Dimitriou & 37, J. Kennedy Streets  161 21 Kaisariani-Athens  Greece
	Telephone		Country code	30
			City code	210
				72.55.555
	Facsimile		72.52.555
	Email		unicefgr@hol.gr

Reference:
The Global Alliance of NAEYC has e-mail addresses for early childhood professionals worldwide:
http://www.naeyc.org/resources/partnership/globalalliance

UNICEF has local organizations and representatives worldwide. Check out the country specific links and contact a local representative:
http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/index.html


Blog Assignment Part 2: Expanding Resources

For Part 2, "Expanding Resources," I broaden my acknowledgement by using the available resources in the field to study using one of the early childhood organization’s website outside the United States and related resources as follow;

Early Childhood Australia: The Australian Early Childhood Advocacy Organization

 I clicked on one of the links to websites through which I felt was interesting to me and hope you will enjoy the information I was able to generate from the contacts that were placed in the Resources list for Blog Assignment section as follows;


Early Childhood Australia: The Australian Early Childhood Advocacy Organization
 The Australian Early Childhood Advocacy Organization is a national, non-profit organization funded by the government who provides services for children age’s birth- eight years old. It acts in the best interests of the infants and young children education acknowledge to provide equal rights and benefits to ensure quality services for infants and children in which the organization supports the their education and growth development within the early childhood programs by engaging with the community,society policy makers and private sectors in connection with the The Global Alliance of NAEYC and UNICEF for The Early Childhood Education Programs. The Australian Early Childhood Advocacy Organizations offers children the same rights and benefits as for all citizens and providing appropriate educational and health resources by establishing an advocacy, champion for the Australian Early Childhood Advocacy organization. Also, ensure access of protections and benefits by ensuring a commitment for the infants and young children by providing support and respect to the highest standards by ensuring equal opportunities in which they strive for high standards that ensure thriving and learning of high quality education, nutritional, guidance, nurturing and mental and physical health services for the well-being of children to have equal rights, benefits and equal opportunities as anyone in their society.

 Their Mission and Role is to respect the dignity of children and provide a secure foundation which values the best range of opportunities, options and outcomes for the individual needs of all infants and young children growth and development. According to The (ECA) Australia Early Childhood Advocacy offer “In all aspects provide ethical, professional, well-informed, thorough, articulate and creative work for the infants and young children.”
(http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/pdf/about_us/eca_values_statements.pdf page1. )

The Australian Early Childhood Advocacy AD Champions works to provide an effective high quality educational and health services for the young children and protecting the equal rights of the infants and young children best interest at heart for the early childhood programs within their community and society that offer a voice that provides opportunities of equal justice for them in compliance to the standards for early childhood development in order for them to become productive and educational successful outstanding citizens through out their individual lives.

According to The Early Childhood Australia Advocacy ad Champions their work “is their prime focus on infants and young children in early childhood education and care services, but also address other significant issues of children’s rights and well being. We particularly recognize the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and their families, acknowledging past and current injustices and realities around Australia, and we challenge ourselves to work for true Reconciliation.”

Furthermore, “Leadership we stand out as proactive champions for young children. We provide an independent focus on the impacts of situations and events involving them by being an advocacy that is understanding energy and change for ECA members, for others in the early childhood sector and for interested people in the wider community.” http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/pdf/about_us/eca_values_statements.pdf page1.

 In addition, The Australian Early Childhood Advocacy Organization provides honesty to ensure integrity and sincerity for the children. Also, is open to listen and response to questions dealing with issues or values that involves the well-being of the children by Communicating and working with children by encouraging and promoting Collaboration to build a strong relationship and partnership in connections to establishing positive goals and successful achievement for all children.

Therefore, the Diversity and Justice is a very important role that the Australian Early Childhood Advocacy Organizations plays in the lives of infants and children by being active and being a voice for justice and injustice towards children rights in situations and events that may affect them throughout their course of study. The ECA approach is being positively interactive and respecting, supporting the values, morals and the differences of individual diverse cultures beliefs and believes in infants and children gaining successful educational achievement towards their individual goals in life. (ECA Value Statements –September 2010 Page 2/2)

According the newly appointed Assistant Minister for Education the Hon Susan Ley MP made an address to the Early Childhood Australia (ECA) Council meeting in early October. The Minister Ley was” against committing to flexible hours because she of a high increase in services and daily fees. Also, there is a shortage within the workforce, due to most teachers not being trained in the early childhood field and not having a four year degree and According to; “The results of the Workforce Census recently commissioned by the Department of Education (formerly the Department of Education, Employment & Workplace Relations).”

 According to the Minister,” ECEC needs to offer services that allow parents to return to work. The Minister proclaimed the Government’s support for the National Quality Framework (NQF), but wants to implement the reforms in a ‘smarter and more streamlined way’ that allows educators to spend more time with children and less time completing paperwork. The Minister acknowledged the growth and change within the sector, incorporating a push towards professionalized ECEC with a focus on education.”  (http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/early_childhood_news/early_childhood_n  ews/october-eca-council-meeting-2013.html )

Furthermore, there is an issue concerning time due to the increased documentation in which teachers have to provide that does not allow enough time for the teacher’s to spend quality time with the children in their care. According to the newsletter there was a discussion on some potential reductions in red-tape and paperwork (not related to the documentation of learning).(http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/early_childhood_news/early_childhood_news/october-eca-council-meeting-2013.html )

 According to Early Childhood Australia “the Minister is keen to identify policies that promote the inclusion of disadvantaged children and children with special needs. Furthermore, ECA sought the Minister’s support in promoting best practice pedagogy for the early years in school settings, including more recognition for the importance of play based learning for five to eight-year-olds. This arises from concerns raised by members working in school settings where the impact of NAPLAN and the National Curriculum appears to be driving a push for more instructional teaching down into the foundation year, particularly in some states/territories.”


References
 Early Childhood Australia: The Australian Early Childhood Advocacy Organization http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/ (Newsletter:http://www.earlychildhoodaustralia.org.au/contact_us/mailing_list.html )

" My Support"

                                            

The factors within my daily environment that are supportive are good health, family, education, religion and money. The ways in which these factors provide support to me is that each one contributes a very important connection that simulates a positive impact in my life. For instance, these benefits support me by helping me to function healthy and gives me hope and self confidence within my self to achieve whatever goals or obstacles I might encounter in life to succeed and survive. Furthermore, each benefit helps support me to learn how to cope with my strengths and weakness to build upon my personal experiences and knowledge in order to survive any challenges I may face as an individual within my everyday surroundings. Therefore, by having good health, family, education, religion and money in my life helps me to provide for all my necessities and to apply the many opportunities that I can in a positive way to growth and develop a sense of pride and dignity. In other words, I will develop a healthy well-being, relationship and partnership that is nurturing, mindful, faithful to survival, succeed in life and be happy with a peace of mind for myself and other people within my daily surroundings that I love and love me as a person within my daily environment. However, it will be very difficult for me to exist without these supports. For Instance, without good health I am not any good to anyone or myself. For example, without good health I could not provide for my family or I and I would not be able to obtain or comprehend to achieve my education or have faith in myself or other individuals in order to survive in life. Furthermore, without my family there to support me in what I set out to accomplish I would feel betrayed. Because, family is how I inherited my identity. For example, family is who I value as a part of my life and share my beliefs and morels in which I have highly expectations of respect and understanding of our relationship and partnership that helps supports what I believe in and what I can accomplish. In other words, my family gives me a sense of hope a connection to feeling apart of something or someone who make me feel, love, nurture, safe and secure within my environment. However, I believe if I didn’t pursue my education in life to reaching my fullest potential and my goals I would encounter a very difficult life. For example, without having an education or support in my life I would have not been able to help my children with their home work. Also, I wouldn’t know how to read or write and so I couldn’t help my self solve a problem if I couldn’t understand what it is I don’t Know. Therefore, I support education very much because, if I was to lose everything that I’d work for in life it could be all taken away, but education is one thing no one can take away from you. Why? Because, no one can take away what you’d learn. Also, I believe without religion I have no belief and without belief I have no faith and without faith I have no hope and with out hope I am lost soul. This is my culture beliefs that were taught to me as a child growing up by my parents embrace in me to value as a person. In other words, these values and morels taught me to treat people the way I would like to be treated and never give up in what I’m trying to accomplish in life. Therefore, these words help me to understand, respect, support, and appreciate myself and others who care, respect and support me to succeed in my goals in life. In addition, if I didn’t believe are have any beliefs and morels to value as a person in my life it would be difficult to understand what it is that I feel can benefit from as a person. For instance, life would be difficult for me to survive if I didn’t have any money. For example, I couldn’t provide for my family and myself food,shelter and all the necessities that my family and I needed in order to survive and have a healthy life. However, the impact would have on my life if all these things and person was gone it would make me a stronger person and wiser human begin to have had the opportunities to experience and appreciate what I have learned from what I experience, even if I didn’t have nothing or no one else but to appreciated what I remember, experiment and learn from what I was taught and move forward in my life from what I learn and never give up on my self if everything I want and need was gone. In other words I will always keep hope alive. The challenge I choose to imagine and the thoughts I have with regard to support I would want and need. To maintain a healthy life and to accomplish my goals and to succeed in helping supporting my family while I achieve my education and hold a full time job as a single parent that would offer a healthy productive life as an individual. Therefore, when I imagine my thoughts regard to support of what I want and need I would focus on completing my education to pursue my goals to gain better opportunities in life in order to help other individual to become successful in their life. For instance,being educated and respected in my life to open up my own early childhood .development center in my community where I was raised in poverty and help other children and families in poverty to be successful in reaching their goals to become successful productive individual within their community or society. Furthermore, as I describe factors with my daily environment that would be supportive to me, including the ways in which these factors would provide support. Again, the factors would be supportive to me would be having good health, family, education, religion and money. These factors would provide support, encouragement, motivation, hope, respect, and faith in myself to believe I can do whatever I put my mind up to do in order to be successful and accomplish the things I want and need for my family and myself. Therefore, as an individual who want and need the same thing in life. When I consider how difficult it would be to exist without this support? I believe it would be very difficult for me to pursue life without a purpose or someone who didn’t care about me to pursue my goals and didn’t support or respect me for wanting something better in life. The impact it would have on my life if they weren’t there? Is I would feel very disappointed, because, I would realized that it wasn’t for them I wouldn’t be who I am today,Also,when considering the fact how it would impact who I am today it will help me in a positive way in which I can learn from my experience and move forward in life. Why? because, I was taught to keep hope alive and pursue my dreams and goals in life as a person. Also, with this being said I can move forward in pursuing my dreams and goals in life.

My Connection to Play

   

 

Children learn as they play. Most importantly, in play children learn how to learn.

O. Fred Donaldson
                                                                         Contemporary American martial arts master

 

 

When children pretend, they’re using their imaginations to move beyond the bounds of reality. A stick can be a magic wand. A sock can be a puppet. A small child can be a superhero.

 

What I remember about my friends and family members, such as cousins, siblings and friends in my life who supported me in the role of play. We played by imitating, pretending, imagining, creating, engaging and sharing experiences acting out different roles when playing together. They participated with me by acting the role of different characters such as, my mother, teacher, children, and sometimes an animal. Also, giving me the opportunity to be one or the other characters I described above. In other words, they participated in sharing ideas, suggestions, opinions, and we would take turns with each other. We would use different materials. Such as, sticks, rocks, mud, grass, sand/water and other objects. In addition, we shared toys, clothes, hats, wigs, play dishes, buckets, shovels and shoes and other items. For example, a ruler, chalk, and crayons were used to play different activities or games. We would communicate between one another during role play to be someone else or something else, acting out whatever role that involved the character to demonstrate the respect of another person by informing one another if something wasn’t safe. However, if we choose to listen or not at least we were warned by the other individual or parent about the risk or mistakes that may or may not will occurred when playing within our environment. Therefore, our creativity and imagination help us to build different connections to how and individual plays stimulate knowledge or actions about other human beings and their self to learn the different ways of pretending and using their imagination to be an animal or object. Furthermore, play can help an individual to gain understanding of their own learning and development capabilities while enjoying themselves playing with other objects or items of their choice. For instance, play can be considered to be a learning experience about what is the meaning of right and wrong if giving the freedom to explore and learn how things work on your own or with others you can learn from your own mistakes in life. For example, the top picture to the left one little girl is pretending that her hands are an object by using both hands as a yarn spindle to help her friend make a hat for her to wear. Therefore, the little girl to the right is pretending to be her teacher or mother by demonstrating to her how to knit using the yarn in which, they both create an item together using their own creativeness, imagination to make reality come true by role playing and imitating their mother, grandmother or teacher and sharing with each other during role play within their own imaginary world.

How I feel play today is similar or different from the play in which I engaged in as a child and what I hope for young people to have the opportunity to learn math, reading and science that involves participation of an  individual social and physical activity while having fun now in regard to play. The ways things are similar is that most children are still interested in learning by playing together with one another in sharing ideas, opinions, experiences, and exploring, imitating and experimenting the advances and disadvantages within their environments. For example, the little girl’s playing hop scotch are having fun participating in an activity together, because it allows them to be themselves without having any restrictions, predictions or judgments. This game involves math that consist of numbers, patterns, length and width using an individual cognitive, social and mental and physical capabilities of abilities learning about distances that consist of measurements upon playing. and have fun. Also, it teaches a lesson about social and emotional as well as cognitive that younger or older children can learn from making their own mistakes or others who are participating in the activity. Therefore, play consists of becoming knowledgeable, creative while having fun.

Today most children engage in the role of play is a lot different because most children engage in play by sitting in front of a T.V. or Computer and playing a game or talking to a friend on their cell phone or maybe play games on the phone. However, most children  talking on face book because, maybe they are not allow to associate with other children within their surroundings or explore,  experience, experiment their nature world and habitats.  Therefore they don’t know how to use their imagination and be creative and go outside to play with other children in their school setting or neighborhood within their own backyard, playground or park in which can be very educational experience within their environment. Why? Maybe because most parents, teacher’s don’t have time or permission or maybe just to tired to participate in any mental physical activities . For instance, scavenger hunts, jacks, baseball, football, volleyball, baseball, ring around the roses, and hokey poky and a monopoly game or even domino’s that will educate them an ensure a healthy well being fostering nurture and guidance to develop cognitively, social and emotional healthy growth and development. The differences are most children are calling out for help from their parent's and teachers to interact or communicate with them and get the individual attention they need at home or school.

For example, most children have delays in educational subjects or health because they don’t play a lot or of any physical activities or cognitive games. However, if they played some of the activities or games like I did then maybe as younger child there want be so many cases of childhood obesity and educational delays, genetic psychological disorders that can affect them in learning different subjects that consist of physical,social and emotional capabilities.  I learn about applying my fine and gross motor skills by having the opportunity to be engage with my parent and teachers to show me and allowing me to explore in a mentally and physically active within different activities while experimenting, with dirt, water, grass, rocks and sticks to be creative in making my on toys, such as building a house with rocks, box’s or dirt even if I didn’t have the educational tools at home or school. Having the opportunity to explore all possibilities within my environment at an young age at home or school gave me different insights and views about how things work.  In addition, during my early childhood years our coach role model by demonstrating how to play the game.The different about today most teachers and parent’s will give instructions without participation among the children in a physical activity which consists of the teacher and parent’s being involved does not just mean observing the child while they play. But, it does require and mean engaging with the child sometimes and by teaching them how to interact and communicate and understand and respect the different diversities of ones cultural environment, values and morals. In addition, let children have the freedom or exposure or opportunity of putting it into action that consist of imagination, creativity, pretending, imitating mentally and physically within your environment doing role play to capture the knowledge and capabilities of educating your self about the nature world and everything that involves using their imaginations to move beyond the bounds of reality.

For example, if you tell a child to jump off a plastic box, but they never been taught or given the opportunity to learn the appropriate way how to jump correctly, then how do the teacher or parent expect for them to jump off the box correctly. When I was five if my teacher or parent wanted me to learn how to jump rope she or he first demonstrate to me how to jump rope without getting hurt.

 My thoughts regarding the role of play throughout my earlier childhood life and/or the role of play throughout my childhood and my adulthood consist of parents and teachers taking the time and patience to be a positive role model by participating in the social and physical activities inside or outside the classroom or home. Also, the teachers would give us homework to take home that consist of social and physical environment with our parents to watch a movie together, go to the park, putting together a kit, plane, following a cooking recipe, sewing or putting together a model car.

Therefore, people supported me by learning me how to be creative by using my own experience, ideas or by helping me to learn from other individuals within my surroundings or environments that consist of diversity cultural  in different places or using different things from experience or observing people, places, objects, and items within my nature world. Furthermore, I have the right to experiment, explore, if given have the opportunity to learn how things work using my own ideas and creativeness to design and describe how I can use them while I learn through play. When I played as a young child I enjoying myself having the freedom to explore on my own at the same time using my own description of an character and imagination to come true is a visual or hand on learning experience. For instance, it helps me to learn about life and the things that are created on earth and  was a part of life to understand and appreciate the differences. Furthermore it helps to have an open mind about people and animals and objects or items and open up doors for greater opportunities within my community or society during my early childhood. For example, look, what I am doing today as an early development teacher. I am giving back to other children who deserved the same opportunity to learn within their environment and society about their nature world as I did and to be themselves while having fun and being educated about the people, places, and things within their world as they use their imagination and creativity within their everyday environment.

References 
www.thestrong.org/about-play/play

Relationship Reflection

                                                     

 My Daughter                                     My Grandson                                               My Son

The reason why relationships and partnerships are important to me in developing and maintaining  a family, begins with communication, commitment, determination and understanding that ensures the foundation to build a sense of security, love, respect, trust, honesty, passion, and positive support within individual lives. Also, it is gives me the encouragement to have an on going connection and bond towards all individuals who are apart of my life and everyday surroundings. Identifying several people that I currently have a positive relationships and partnerships with will be my two children and my grandson who contribute to making a positive impact in my life in many ways. For instance, I have a special love for both of my children and my grandson. I provide guidance and nurturing through out their lives. Also, I care about them and love their individuality. When describing the ways in which each relationship is positive and factors that contributed to developing and maintaining each relationship begins with the hope and strength to develop a goal in their life and myself. When they were growing up everyday I would help them with their homework and school projects along with preparing dinner. We’ll have a family style sitting in which we bless our food before we would eat. I took them to the park, picnics, art exhibitions, museums, and plays at theater. We would even go to symphonies and children concerts. We watch movies together and occasionally we go out of town and sometimes we would eat out at the restaurant. Furthermore, we attended Church, parent meetings and School functions together in which they participated in a particular role. Also, we celebrated as a family birthdays and holidays. We went on shopping trips.  My children and my grandson are a big inspiration in my life and I always tell them how much I loved them and how proud I am of them. Relationships and partnerships consist of taking consideration of other individual feelings and not just your own feelings. My future goals were to do what was best for my family and what is right in their lives by choosing to devote all the time they needed for support in making them feel comfortable and safe. Also, I support both of my children while they are currently attending junior college. I communicate with them all the time and I babysit my grandson while my daughter goes to school and my son. I also support my son who lives out of town attending college and playing college basketball. I talk to him every night after his basketball practice. In order, for me to become successful in making a better life for both of my children, grandson and myself I must set an positive example and give back the strength and the will power with the advice which given to me as a child to complete my education. I have always been a very hard worker and I have worked a full time job for twenty six an half years while continuing my education. Once I graduated from college, I brought a home and a car for my children where they could feel safe and secure. When describing the insights regarding challenges to developing and maintaining relationships that I have learned from my experience over time, started after my divorce I faced my biggest challenges so I decided to continue my education considering I was a single parent and the head of my household with low income. This is the reason I appreciate my children and my grandson because of them I was inspired to become committed as a parent, grandparent and to be a positive role model in their lives by saying or doing what is right by pursuing my goals to have a better career so we would not have to live in poverty anymore. The special characteristics of our relationships that make partnerships are the passion and love we build together. A connection to me to strive to met our individual goals by staying in a healthy relationship and partnerships. Also, it gave us the determination to not settle for less in life, but to develop and maintain interest in preparing a better life for us all. Furthermore, we all gain experience and knowledge about striving for a healthy and productive life. As individuals we learn our relationship and partnership is built on communication, understanding, respect, honesty, passion, and having positive support through the good times and through the bad times. We must have the determination, will power, and staying connect to one another by respecting and taking in consideration of one another feelings. While working together in order to help one another reach our goals. Therefore, relationship and partnership to me is the glue that keeps us together.

When I Think of Child Development

Lady Bird Johnson, former U.S. first lady

"Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them."

Sundari Sherreitt  It is nice to know that there are people still in this world that can be an inspiration to children, families and other people like yourself who may cross different people lives in this within this society like myself in your pathway in life.    Therefore, Thank You  for being a very inspiring person and supportive team player. Sincerely  Herleen Pickrom   Nikiesha Neil Thank you for your encouraging words and for being a positive team player though out this journey. May the words of encouragement follow you though your whatever endeavor you choose to be successful in pursuing in your life.  Sincerely Herleen Pickrom