In todays world, it is hard to make it on your own on a day to day basis. People are losing jobs, stressed about school, work and their families. A lot of parents are forced to leave home to find work, instead of staying home raising their children. As a parent, educator, and student, I am grateful to have people in my life that are supportive at home, at work, and at school. Without these people in my life, I do not know where I would be today.
My support on a day to day basis has been awesome. At home, I cherish my fiancé who truly helps out around the house and keeps our son while I attend to my home work and paper work for my students. My mom, grandmother and mother-in-law are the greatest because they never mind watchinh my son for me when ever I need to get things done for school or around the house, my cousin is my supporter because she watches my son 5 days a week at reasonable price and works with him on his speech, letters, numbers and colors, and my teacher assistant who does awesome with the students in our classroom. All of these people support me in major ways. My teacher assistant supports me by doing half of the paper work on our students to keep the load and stress off of me. She does it from the kindness of her heart and that really means a lot to me personally. Without these supportive people in my life, I do not know what I would do especially regarding school and work. My life would be hard without these people in my life.
When I began imagining my support, I began to think of how difficult it would be not to have someone home to help with your child(ren), how it would feel to do everything for yourself at your job, to not have help to watch your children while you work to provide for your family. I imagine myself having loving people all around me who are willing to assist without anything in return. I know it is unrealistic to have everyone in your corner because everyone will not be happy about your success. From my experience, I learned to cherish the people that you care most about and love those who may not support or care about you. As a educator, I learned to have patients and love for those who may not give the same in return. Support is not what you always get, but it does feel good when you have it.
