PLAY

"My Connections to Play"

Quotes

Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic: it is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new and fresh and astonishing. Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing. When the world gives you a feeling of "déjà vu," when you are used to existence, you become an adult.

EUGENE IONESCO, Present Past / Past Present

Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity.

    Kay Redfield Jamiso
Contemporary American professor of psychiatry

I remember living in Puerto Rico, in a mountain located in Canovanas (really rural area) around that time of my life. My mother used to tell us (my sister, brother, and cousins) to get out of the house and use our imagination to play. We lived at the top of a mountain and at the back side of the mountain there was a river that went all around of the town.  When my mom used to kick us out of the house, my sister used to pack a backpack with water, threats, and first aid supplies and off we went. I remember being gone for hours at a time. I remember getting in the deeper parts of the river, looking for animals or weird looking flowers.  I see my childhood like the best part of my life, we were encouraged to have fun and believe in something more than games or television.

Play is so much different now than before; I have three small children that don’t leave my side for anything. Violence has reached such a high degree that no one is completely safe and children less. I feel bad because I work so much that I don’t have the time I would like to have to take my children to the park, beach, or something where they can use their imagination without worries or judgments.  

This are pictures of my children at the beach and at the part; 

 

These are pictures of my children at either the beach or a park

 

Relationships

RELATIONSHIPS

Relationships are important to me because they help make some part of who I am. Friends that have been by my side and have become like family help me be a better person. Relationships with my children help me guide them and raise them the best that I can so in the future when they are adults they can have good relationships.

There are several people in my life that I have a positive relationship with; I will start with my husband, we need to have an excellent relationship to raise happy positive children. The second person is my mother (now) it’s funny but I did not have a relationship with her when I was growing up, now that I am a mother I understand many things that she did and I can appreciate it. The last person I have an excellent relationship with is my best friend, I have known her for 15 years and she is now like my sister.

The hardest thing of having a good relationship with someone is trying to see eye to eye, we all have different personal believes that might get in the way by a comment that might be taken the wrong way.

Being good as an early childhood professional is being able to form good relationships with everyone around me; from the coworkers, to the children, to the family of the children. If relationships are not positive with any of the three parties I mentioned then the learning and growth of the children will have a positive outcome.

My children

My mother

My best friend/sister and my God daughter