My Connections to Play

Play is our brain's favorite way of learning.

Diane Ackerman
Contemporary American author

Almost all creativity involves purposeful play.

Abraham Maslow

“Children learn as they play. Most importantly, in play children learn how to learn.”
 ~ O. Fred Donaldson (martial arts master)



I always wanted to be a teacher, when I was young, my mom brought me chalk and I had a blackboard on my wall in my room. I pretended to play school with my dolls and my cats.

I loved playing double dutch jump rope with the neighborhood kids. I would always choose someone who would win with me.



Hopscotch  was a great game that taught numbers. We teach our children today how to play in head start.

All of the quotes above remind me of what play means to me. When  I was younger I did not know that play was so important to development under I completed college and learned that play is so important. My mom always allowed me to go outside, really she encouraged me to get out to jump rope and things of that nature.When I was a little girl I played hopscotch with the other little girls on street because I did not have a sister so I played games with the others on my street. My brothers are all about 15 to 20 years older than me so I had no none to play with as a kid but the children on my block, I was so fortunate to have such a friends and we are all still friends and we get together three times a years and do things together with our kids.

It is so hard to get children to play games that I played when I was young. Play is totally different from how it was when I was young , When  I was young there was more activities that we were involved in that enable us to do gross motor activities such as jump rope, bike riding, hopscotch. Today children are more involved in technology that is not so physically fit. Children spend more time indoors rather that outdoors. I am very happy that game makers are making games more give children more choice of physical activities. I am so happy that I understand the importance of play in children.

Relationship Reflection

Relationship Reflection

These are some of my favorite quotes

 “The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships.” 

- Anthony Robbins 

“Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.” 
- Flavia Weedn

Relationships are important to me because the more  supportive relationship you have you are able  to communicate your thoughts, feeling, emotions and enable you accept criticism that will help you throughout life. Everybody crave and need social contact whether its from family, friends, church, or pets.  These supportive relationships has helped me with the death of my mother. Relationships bring fun, fulfillment, comfort, and joy and takes the stress out of your life. 

I have several relationships that play a vital role in my life, such as my husband, children, brother and my Sorority Sisters of Zeta Phi Beta  Sorority. My husband and I have a    relationship that I can share anything with him and he does not look down on me he supports everything I do and gives me advice even if I don't like it. We help each other and we live, think and pray together. My relationship with my brother is a sibling relationship, family must always support and communicate with each other. My sorority sisters provide a relationships the helps me get through times when I need that sisterly excitement and I am able to have that sisterly love because I am a only girl, so I am blessed to have a family of sisters to talk to on a daily basis.

I think that everyone must have respect, good communication skills, love, friendship, compassion in order to have good relationships in life. The relationships I have people really comes from the relationships I had as a child. I remember my dad always talk with me about my day at school or whatever, I guess that's why I try to ask questions and be concern about what parents think and encourage their participation in the program. All of the relationships that I have had in the past and the relationships I have now play a major part in the way I treat parents at the first meeting with them. I treat people the way I really want to be treated.