'My Connections To Play"

Play energizes us and enlivin us. It eases our burdens. It renews our natural sense of optimism and opens us up to new possibilities.
                                    Stuart Brown. MD

Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning.
                                   Fred Rogers

A child loves his play, not because its easy , but because its hard.
                                  Benjamin Spoek

Play was supported by my parents and grandparents by letting me go outside and play with other childrens along with my sisters and brothers. We played hide and seek, kickball, and teacher. Play is still the same some children go outside and play, but not all of them when they are not in front of a tv or on the computer playing games. Some children still do role play such as Cowboys, Indians, and Teacher. My hope for the young is that they still continue to play because it is healthy to their developement and learning stages. My thoughts on role play is that it helps you to see things in a diffrent light, it help you to grow, and it helps you in your relationship with other people.

Relatonship Reflection

Relationships ae important t me because relationships help people to grow and connect with each other. In a relationship you will find out more about the person or the people you are in a relationship with. You will find out what they like to do and what they don't like and how much they will  put up with. When you are in a relationship you have to have trust, communication and feelings of love for your love ones and for your friends. Relationships can be healthy and unhealthy and what I mean about that is if it is a healthy relationship that means everybody is gettig alone no fighting or arguements of course there will be some fussing but not enough to break up a relationship or stop talking to your families and friends.
My relationship with my realitives and with my co-workers and friends are very postive. My relatinship with my children is very good because we communicate and talk about things that is important to them, I also let them know that I may not agree with everything that the may do but I am still their mother and I will stand by them and for a single mom of four I think I have done a good job at raising some well mannered children. My relationship with my family is ok we all get alone with each other and we do family gatherings and trips together but we still do our own thing. My relationship with my co-worker and friends is that we help and respect one another and try to help each other when needed. The challenges I see in communicating with each other about the things that matter and just being truthful.

Quotes for children

Always end the name of yourchild wi a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry
author: Bill Cosby

I would like to thank Felicia Bryant for blogging with me and that I wish her the best in her upcoming classes

Testing for Inteligence

All children are born diferent and they are uique in their own special way. Children develop different and they learn to accomplish different task and do things in their way.  I believe thats how childrn should be measure or asess by but not by what another cild has done or accomplish.

Assessing in African schools is a difficult aspect to assess eventhough quality learning has taken place. Student achievement has been assessed by the size of the class and by the budget. AFR/SO provides encouragement and support to review student assessment in two ways. 1) natioal assessments hat appraise the prformance ofall or part of the educational systemso that schools can be held accountable for results. 2)cntinuous clasroom assessment that enables teachers to monitor student performance.

The concerns that I have is can we be fair when it comes to assessment. All actors must be considerd like the child environment, and background.

http://www.equip123.net/EQ%20Review/docs/Basic EdBriefs.pdf  

Consequences of stress on children development

as a child growing up I can't remember ever worrying about war, hunger, racism, natural disaster, isolation poverty, noise, chaos, disease environmental pollution and violence, but then I thought about as a child when I was in the 6th grade I had gotten sick at school and I can't quite remember how I was feeling that day but I do remember feeling and looking bad and my hair was in a pony tail, my skin was kind of rough, so  maybe about 10:00 or 10:30 my mother came to the school to get me and to take me to the doctor to find out what was wrong. Once there they did blood work and from there they gave me something to drink  like a coke to test me to see if I had sugar. I had to sit for 2 hours and once that was done the doctor came and told my mother I was on the border line to being a diabetic. The doctor gave me some medicine to take and told my mother to change my eating habits and to also have me checked out for sugar every six months, but as I got older I got the test done once a year. Now I didn't have any symptoms like thirsty for water, itchiness or going to the bathroom a lot. What I have done over the years every since I out found that I was on the border line for diabetes I stop eating a lot of carbohydrates like rice, spaghetti's, mac-noodles I also had slacked down on chips and cookies. I found out about 10years ago my mother was diagnosed a a diabetic and the following year 1 had a brother that was diagnosed as a diabetic, and about 4years my baby brother found out that he was a diabetic. My grandmother was a diabetic on my daddy side for about 20 years before she died in 1997.

I choose Louisiana in he United States because when Katrina hit in 2005 they had many problems such as not enough food to eat, hardly no medical services, no clean water to drink, no clean clothes to put on, and they did not have a place to stay. Some people stayed in trailers that was donated by the government and if they had relatives and friends somewhere else who they could stay with they did that. What was done to help the children and adults was that people all over the United States sent money in to help them and people came from all over to help clean up Louisiana. Different companies and business donated bottles of water, clean clothes, medical supplies and detergent to wash clothes with and soap to bath with. 

Child Development and Public Health

The topic that I chose on Public Health is immunization because there are diseases that can harm children or even kill them if they have not had their immunization shots. Immunization protects the children from diseases like the chickenpox, the measles, the whooping cough and the polio and etc.... Immunizations protect children also from serious complications such as deaf, blindness an meningitis. When a child is vaccinated it stops the spread of different diseases that can harm them or others. Parents need to make sure that their child is up on their shots.  In other countries children die from diseases like measles, diphtheria because they have  not been immunized. In the US most children have had their shots and their immune system is protected. 

Ways that this information may impact my future work is that when working with children in a school setting thy must be up on their shots or they can not come to school until that is done or if the shot record is out of compliance the child must go to the local health department to get their shots updated.

Personal Birthing Experience

What I remember about my first born birth is that I was in labor for 13 1/2 hour and I did not know what to expect since this was my first pregnancy. I could not eat any junk food about the only thing I could keep down was some watermelon.  I also remember the pain when they induce my labor because I was not dilating as fast as the doctor wanted me to I guess. Then the nurses is in the delivery room telling me to push and I said I am pushing how was I to know you have to push like you are doing number two.  I was 21 and about to be a mother and I was scared because you listen to other people experiences and you realize your experience is different from theirs.  I chose this experience as a example because it was a real experience and it is one that I will not forget. My thoughts about birth and the impact on child development is that giving birth is a beautiful experience and I always believe that a woman should experience giving birth at least one time. An expecting mother should take care of herself and her baby like eating right exercising and taking her prenatal vitamins and iron tablets.  And if she does these things she should have a healthy child that will develop and do well in school.
One of e things that I learned about the country Africa is that childbirth is the biggest killer of women in childbearing age according to Dr. Adrian Brown chairman of the Charity Maternity Worldwide.