My Supports

My Supports

 

            One factor that is very supportive to me in my life is my mother. My mom is the person that I turn to when facing dilemmas with my children, husband or just life in general.  As a child, she taught me variable lessons that prepared me for what the world has to offer.  She showed me how to be a patient, loving, and a caring child as well as the ma right and wrong.  Later in my teenage years, when peer pressure was becoming major challenging, her support became more emotional.   Even today, as an adult, I find myself reflecting on the values she instilled in me while I was growing up.

 

            Another factor in my life that is very supportive to me is my loving and caring husband.   Besides my mother, he’s the key person in my life that would stand by me thru thick and thin, or the good time and the bad times.  There were moments that I felt frustrated about my job, people letting me down, and even putting my Masters on hold, once again, and he’s the one who help me get over my little hurdle and get me back on track.

 

             My last factor that is very supportive to me in my daily environment is the internet.  The internet is a faster way of accessing information without leaving my house or the classroom.  The internet provides a wealth of information on lesson plans, teaching strategies for different styles of learning, tips for teachers on classroom management, as well as decoration/theme ideas and most importantly, a tool for children to learn from. 

 

             I believe that my life would be pretty much upside down without my daily supporters: my mother, my husband and the internet, in my world.  The benefit of having them in my life is to remind me to never give up on what I started.  Not having my mother around to remind me of the values she planted within me, my encouraging husband cheering me on or the internet to guide me to creativity and new ideas for my classroom environment, my life would be very stressful and hectic.

 

The challenge that I imagine for myself is the idea of me being a single mother of two young children who’s been unemployed for the past three month and my saving is gone. Factors in my daily environment that would support me and my family would be state and government agencies as well as my family. The way that the factors would provide support to me is by giving assistance in my time of need and guidance to help put me back on track. The potential benefits that I would receive are food stamps-to help with purchasing food to eat, Medicaid- provides medical services to families who earn little money, and welfare- offers cash assistance for low income families with children.  Also unemployment and workshops on resume writing and interview techniques.  If the above support factors didn’t exist in my life then my family and I would be displaced and unsafe.  I believe the impact of not having these factors in my life would dramatically change for the worse.