Early Childhood Education

QUOTES THAT SUMMARIZE WHAT PLAY REPRESENTED FOR ME AS A CHILD PICTURES OF ESSENTIAL    PLAY ITEMS I ENJOYED    AS A CHILD As I was growing up, playing was a way of life. My mother encouraged play and so did the entire neighborhood. I remember vividly how on the weekends we would get together and ride our bikes from one block to the next. I remember jumping rope day in and day out. The weekends we looked forward to. Groups of friends would get together to ride the bus to Greenville to go to Rollerworld. Rollerworld was the place where we would meet people from another town and maybe become friends.  Play was considered a way of connecting with one another. Today play is so much different from the way I engaged as a child. Technology has taken over the way our children communicate with each other. Even as I look at my 13-year-old son and compare his way of communicating, for him he mostly engages his peers using a cell phone and video game...

My family is my world. I uploaded pictures of my three young men and myself. Having a relationship is a very important thing to have in life. A relationship can be with your guy friends, a girlfriend, or family related. When people think of relationships, they usually think of having a girlfriend or boyfriend. Having a good relationship with your family is very important. It is always good to have a nice relationship with your family because you can gain trust and you know that they are always there for you. The key ingredients for any successful relationship are a willingness to trust in each other, to communicate effectively, be able to apologize when we make mistakes and take responsibility for own behavior, to maintain a sense of humor and humility and above all to give each other and the relationship time by being actively involved and sharing a significant part of our lives together. Relationships evolve and change all the time. Key factors in sustaining and...