Mother: "Gabby, stop playing in the grass!"
Gabby: "Mom, I am not playing in the grass."
Parents have to realizes their children are not always "playing" in the grass. That child is using motor skills, as well as observing the texture of the grass. Children learn better when they receive hands-on activities. Many times adults learn better on their jobs when they receive hands-on training. As adults we have to understand may learn things at a slower pace, but they learning skills are just like adults.
Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Personal Childhood Web
While growing up my mother always
pushed me to do my best in everything. She always put me and my siblings first.
She never put us in daycare. It wasn't because she didn't have the funds, but
it was due to she felt it was responsibility to be home with us. Without her I
probably wouldn't have strive so hard to be the person I am today. I would like
to thank Gloria Branch for molding me into the mother, and wife that I am.
Next person is my dad! God knows
growing up wasn't the easiest task in my household, but I truly thank my dad
for everything. Growing up my dad was an alcoholic. He didn't go into rehab until
I was in ninth grade, but it was one of the best decisions he ever made. I
respect my father so much for not giving up. I know it was a challenge, but he
stuck with it. Till this day my dad still treats me as his "baby
girl" Without receiving that unconditional love from him I wouldn’t know
how my husband was supposed to treat me. Thanks Jasper Branch for being a
strong role model to me.
While growing up I ran track. My
track coach and his wife treated me as if I was one of their children. If I
needed help with school work, personal issues, or needed a shoulder to cry on
they were always there for me. It's not too often that adults are willing to
listen to a child, but I am grateful that these two took the time out to listen
to me. Thanks Mr. and Mrs. Washington!
My final person who had an impact on
me while growing up was my high school track coach. I looked up (and still do)
to her as a role model. She did everything I wanted to do. She ran track while
she was in high school, college as well as other professional meets. She was a
teacher and most of all she was a mentor to young girls. If it wasn't for her I
probably would have been in jail. (Seriously) I can't thank her enough for
helping me! Thanks Courtney Carr
Elizabeth Peabody Quote:
The advantage to the community in utilizing the age from 4 to 6 in training the hand and eye; in developing the habits of cleanliness, politeness, self-control, urbanity, industry; in training the mind to understand numbers and geometric forms, to invent combinations of figures and shapes, and to represent them with the pencil—these and other valuable lessons… will, I think, ultimately prevail in securing to us the establishment of this beneficent institution in all the city school systems of our country.
"The child's work is nothing more or less than man-building! Day after day, hour after hour, from minute to minute, that incessant labour goes on. There must be no break in his activities, for that would mean death. He must surmount every obstacle in his path, he must vanquish every difficulty. Humanity, unaware of what it is doing, has blocked his path of development with countless difficulties; so that the child's labour through the ages has been broken by cries of lamentation and drenched in tears. Now that we know what he suffers; now that we realise the fatal consequences of frustrating this development which goes to form the man, we have been awakened to the consciousness of the need for a new kind of social crusade - a social campaign on behalf of the noblest of beings, the least protected of all workers - the child. Let humanity awake! Let her give the child such conditions of living as he requires - if he is to achieve his task - which is sacred - no longer amid strife and lamenting, but full of joy, and aided by the society in which he lives."
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