MY SUPPORTS

 I have discovered that having support in your life will assist in having a more productive life. However everyone does not have strong support so I concern myself as being highly blessed. The Word of God gives me the support I need to function every day. It reminds me who I am, who I belongs to and the fact that I have a purpose in life. With this in mind I know I am an overcomer.

 My next source of support is my husband who is my best friend. He is my shoulder to cry on. He listens to me vent about my day. He works full time and yet he has dinner ready every night I come home. He always encourage me when I feel defeated and reminds me of my first source of support the Word of God.

 There is a group of ladies where I work who call themselves the Crew. They support me by doing their job with the most excellence altitudes. We are all supportive of each other. I thank these ladies all the time for their support and encouragement.

The supports that I have in my life assist me in overcoming obstacles that arise in my life. I support others in the ways that others are supports for me. The supports in my life are very important to me and they help me to succeed in becoming and doing what have been predestined for me to be and do. 

 The challenge that I can think of is being in a wheelchair and the place I want to go is not wheelchair accessible. I thought of this because before my father passed he stop walking. The only way my sisters and I could get him from one place to another was in a wheelchair and many time this was very hard on my father as well as my sisters and me. I thank God for my husband who was a trooper during this time. We had to lift my father down and up the stairs to get him in and out of the house while waiting for a ramp to be build. So I can image the frustration of a person in a wheelchair when their environment does not support them and they cannot get to where they desire to go because of limitations in their environment. 

My Connection to Play

My Connection to Play

When children pretend they’re using their imaginations to move beyond the bounds of reality A stick can be a magic ward. A sock can be a puppet. A small child can be a superhero.

Fred Rogers

American children’s television host

It is in playing and only in playing that the individual children or adults are able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers them self.

D.W. Winnicott

British Pediatrician

           Hula Hoop

   Jumping Rope

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 MarblesRing around the Rosie

Playing is what we did when I was growing –up. We played outside, we played hard and we played a lot.  In the afternoons when you got home from school you change into your play clothes and outside you went to play with the other children in the neighborhood before it got dark.  We play tag, marbles, Mother May I, soft ball, dodge ball, and many other outside games. During the summer we played outside most of the day. It did not matter if it rain, we played in the rain.  On a summer evening it was nothing to look out in the back yard to see at least 15 children playing softball. We use to run across the fields laughing just to be doing something. We played hiding-seek. Oh what such wonderful and care free days they were.

My mother, father, sister, and school supported play when I was young. My parents bought the toy and took me to visit cousins where I would play, talk and laugh. My baby sister and I would play together all the time. We shared toys. We rode our bikes to the store. We climbed trees caught tadpoles in the ditch and so much more everyday was an adventure. At my school we went outside to play every day after lunch where we played softball.

Play today is different from play during the time I grew up. Yes we played board games but play was more physical and provide many opportunities for children to interact with other children.  Physical play helped us to develop in many areas of development that were vital to our overall development. However at the time I thought we were just having fun. There are benefits from such physical play such as being healthy, self-esteem, and socialization.

These day I play with my grandchildren assisting them in playing outside and learning some of the games I played when I were growing up. Encouraging them to play outside which can be fun and healthy for them. I cannot beat them racing but I have fun trying.  Play can benefit the young as well as older adults.