Leading Early Education in the 21st Century

I know a person who underwent a traumatic experience that would forever change his life. As a child he had witness death, disease, hospital visits, and funerals. This child lost his brother, aunts, and was unfortunate to come home to their mother dead on her bed having lost her life to Multiple Sclerosis. He was 10 years old when this happened. After he found his mother laying on her bed, he called his father and then waited in his room until paramedics came. Could you imagine? When his father arrived at the house they found him in his room finishing his homework. This is where you could say when his copping mechanism kicked in. School was his escape from the thought of all he had lost and witnessed. He would later Ace his classes and never have a problem in school. He grew up with a lack of trust for others, limited his relationships, and had the inability of sharing his feelings with ease. “ a lack of appropriate social support for both the child and surviving parent and a failure t...

Breastfeeding   When becoming a mother, I never had a second thought about breastfeeding. It was a natural thing that occurred between mother and child. I would hear stories of some women’s breastfeeding journeys and the ease or difficulty of keeping up with the needs of their child. I would have never thought that this would be a problem for me until it was. I had to stop breastfeed my daughter when she was 7 months old because I couldn’t keep up with my job and produce enough milk to feed my child for the next day at her daycare. This added more stress and effected my milk flow which ultimately caused me to call it quits. It was more difficult afterwards since my daughter had a milk-based allergy and the formula she could drink cost me $80 a week. Her insurance gave me the run around and ultimately wouldn’t cover the cost of formula and if I wanted to be successful at my job I needed to spend less time trying to find places to pump and store my milk and more time in the clas...

·        Write about a personal birthing experience. It can be your own birth, your child's birth, or one you took part in. What do you remember about the event? Why did you choose this example? What are your thoughts regarding birth and its impact on child development?              Elena Y. B. was born September 19, 2017. When asked what I remember about the event, I remember everything. I remember her being 41 weeks and having to be induced. I remember the pitocin beginning at 8:00am September 18 th and having a C-section the next day at 8:30 pm. I remember the nurses struggling to put the IV in my arm all the way up to holding my daughter close to me when being rolled out of the operating room. I remember the days following her birth, I could not sleep. I would sleep possibly 2 hours each day, but I was scared of SIDS and I would watch her sleep. Being pregnant I remember hesit...