Yes, I have had many obstacles that crossed my path but I want him to see that I didn’t just settle for less and that I am in charge of being able to accomplish my dreams and goals. I know that school will be difficult at times, but I am willing to put up with that constant struggle so I can have the feeling a self accomplishment when I am
After I graduated, I did not know where I wanted my life to head so I did not go to school and just worked and had fun. Then my son came, and all my priorities changed. I started wanting better things for him. So I went back to school and found that I really want to be a teacher because of how fast they learn and are influenced. I want to be able to influence children to make the right decisions in life.
It was an experience that I did not know how to handle. For my son and I it was very difficult and life changing. After the divorce I decided to relocate with my mother. I knew that after all she was the only person that can help me gain that strength and will power I had before this experience. I knew that I had to make changes not only for me but, for my son.
The most important convention I’ve learned through this is how to rely on my self more and take responsibility to help my mother out as much as possible since there is one less person. I have both feelings of this experience changing my life for the better in a way, but it mostly changed it for the worse. In the past two years I’ve learned how to be a more active member for my family, and not hide my feelings. My family has become so close since this hardship has
Managing my time for school was another challenge I overcame, it always seemed like I was not going to have time to get everything done. Completing Exp 105 was the best class for me because it helps teach me time management.
I began working on my communication with my friends and family, and trying to make myself stop not letting me feel things. Ever since I was a child, I would hide my feelings and as an adult I had outwardly become a robot. I still am working very hard on my inner changes though some days I wonder if I can or even should change. Progress has never seemed so huge and yet so slow all at the same time. My final decision of all my changes was that I would return to school and get my doctorate in psychology.
Jenny Graves: I love being able to help the younger generations learn and to guide them to be the very best they can be in life. After all they are our future and without us to guide them then the future does not look too promising. Cynthia Moore: What made you choose a career in early childhood education? Jenny Graves: The lack of dedication among the teacher’s I had growing up. To them it was just another job and I wanted more for those learning.
I knew in my situation I was still young and actually had a lot more to learn about life and now parenthood. It was going to be difficult, but a huge part of me wanted to try. I had to be ready to grow up and be willing to give up on my dream of traveling around the world. That did not seem to bother me. I was able to talk with some teen moms about their experiences of having a baby.
It is hard to focus and my study methods are vastly differed from those of an average college student. I am an aspiring student but struggles with focusing in on main projects as I want to ramble in a different direction. In order to get past this I must get in to a routine that requires a type of consistency in my studies. In the same way, Malcolm X had to learn to enhance his education he had to study consistently all day and every free moment in his day. I have to do the same in order to become a successful student.
I always felt that my parents, coaches, and teachers were always harder on me than others on teams, or my siblings and classmates, but I’ve come to realize what their intentions were and why. It was to make me better, to have me grow to who I would become and help me to find my way in this winding roads of a chaotic life we have. But if it weren’t for them, the coaches, my parents, teachers, faculty, teammates, and many more I would not have anything to be remembered for or