My Supports

                                                                            
This blog assignment is kind of touchy to me this week as we discuss what our daily supports are. If I seen to be a little religious I don't mean to offend anyone.
                                                                          

                                                                         
As I sit an think what it is in my life that gives my the motivation to continue what I do I have nothing but thoughts that jump in my head. Some are good and some are bad, but I use each thought to keep me going. When it comes to my daily support I would have to say first of all it comes from the man upstairs that I give thanks to every morning following reading his word to give me some powerful positive enlightment. My next support is my parents and family members the ones thats has moved on and the ones that are still here with me physically. Following my parents and family members I would say my closest sorority sisters, my geniune friends, and just mentors or people that I look up to.

                                                                   
When it comes to the man upstairs and his word I have witness that he has not failed me yet. I have been through ups and downs and I realize as long as I stay humble to him I will come out on top. There have been times in school, on my job, in relationships and with friends where I have ask God to reveal the truth to me and what is it he really wants me to do and not when I want the answer, but right when its time he gives me the answer I need.

                                                                  
My parents and close family gives me that motivation and drive to continue to want to become successful. They always let me know that nothing is easy and I will have to work for what I want and to not take things lightly because as soon as I become comfortable that is when I will loose it right from under my nose. My parents has always given me some type of encourging words rather I wanted to hear them or not because once I sat back and rekindle what they have told me it makes sense. I can recall a situation that I am going through I we speak besides my parents looking down at me they have been my backbone as well as my fiance`. They are continuing to tell me everything will be okay and just stay prayful even though there are times I become frustrated my fiance` is there to take all my anger away.

                                                                   
Out of 25 line sisters I can honestly say I am close to maybe 4 if that many. They have been there for me through thick and thin and have supported me from good times and my bad times when I wanted to give up. I can say my geniune friends and my mentor has been the same way. Oddly my I have two mentors which is one of my sorority sisters and my 1st cousin. As I just stated I am going through a situation where I am not going to bother anyone with , but even though it has only been a month God has really revealed alot to me and has showed me who is there for Rena no matter what.

                                                                            
I feel that my benefits with my daily supports is that it gives me something positive to look forward to and it gives me that positive energy that I seek to have everyday and without it I wouldn't know where I would be...

                                                                      

My Connections To Play

Play today is not that much different from when I was a child. In my past I have observed may childlcare centers and the games I have observed the children being engaged in has not changed at all. I feel that when it comes to early childhood it appear that each child is still in that enjoying play mentality and not trying to grow up so fast and into having fun, but to me it seems once they reach that age range of 7-9yrs age range they mature out of no where. I guess that comes from some parents trying to make their child grow  up to fast and not allowing them to enjoy their childhood and responsbilities on them before its even time. I hope whenever I become a parent or enter my career field I will allow my children to stay in a child minds frame and enjoy their childhood as long as possible.

I can say that my childhood and adulthood when it comes to play is not different at all because even as an adult I am a big kid at heart, except now I may play for the exercise and the enjoyment of friends compared to as a child I was just doing it to have fun.

 

                                                                           

Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning....They have to play with
what they know to be true in order to find out more, and then they can use what they
learn in new forms of play.

--Fred Rogers of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

                                                           

“When kids play, they remember. They may not be aware they are learning, but they sure
are aware they are having fun. When you have a good belly laugh with your siblings or
parents or friends, that stays with you. And the great thing is that is comes so naturally…
if we only let it.”

 

--Rebecca Krook, play facilitator for kids with

disabilities

 

 

Due to the fact I was the only child growing up, play came every easy for me because I played very well by myself as well as had a great imagination. Whether I played with the neighborhood kids or by myself my parents always supported me in my chlildhood. It would be times my dad would come out and  play outside with me if he saw me outside and my mom would play Barbie dolls with me on the inside. One thing I had a bad habit of was making my boy cousins always dress up but I would always agree to go out and play football or soccer so you can say it was an even trade. I can honestly say because of them I have that rough and tumble play naturally because of them and it is more dominant then my drama and pretend play......

 

                                                                                        

 

 

 

 

 

Child Development and Public Health

Breastfeeding
      Breastfeeding is one of the most effective ways to ensure child health and survival. A lack of exclusive breastfeeding during the first six months of life contributes to over a million avoidable child deaths each year. Globally less than 40% of infants under six months of age are exclusively breastfed. Adequate breastfeeding support for mothers and families could save many young lives.
WHO actively promotes breastfeeding as the best source of nourishment for infants and young children. This fact file explores the many benefits of the practice, and how robust help for mothers can increase breastfeeding worldwide.
         The reason I chose breastfeeding because I know that one it is the most effective way of bonding with the child, two it can be a healthy way to ensure that the child is receiving nutrition, but the downfall to breastfeeding is that it is an effective way to pass diseases to your child. The feel that with this particular topic this is information that will continue to change as years pass. There will always be way to were doctors try to keep breast-feeding as a number one source of nutrition for the child and it will allow people like myself that doesnt have kids yet to gain more knowledge of the topic and how it can effect the child. 
  However babies who are exclusively breast-fed are less likely to get sick, because breast milk provides them with antibodies against any disease that the mother is immune. Breast- feeding also decrease the risk of many diseases that appear in childhood and adulthood, among them asthma, obesity, and heart disease.
          Breastfeeding in other countries
The world's oldest and still most widely practiced form of birth regulation is breastfeeding. That statement draws much skepticism among ordinary people in Western culture, but it is recognized as still true by professionals in the fields of international demography and infant nutrition because they know how breastfeeding affects both health and birth intervals in primitive cultures around the world. A professor of pediatrics put it this way: "Demographic data recorded prior to the 20th century from birth records all over the world indicate that the average spacing of children was about two years when mother's milk supplied the major source of calories for infants during the first year to 1.5 years of life."
In the West African country of Rwanda, a culture in which there were no contraceptives or taboos against intercourse after birth at the time, there were no differences in the birth intervals of bottle feeding mothers in the city compared to those in the rural areas. On the other hand, among breastfeeding mothers, there were significant differences. Among the city mothers who were already developing patterns of separation from their babies, 75% conceived between 6 and 15 months postpartum. However, in the rural areas, mothers had their babies with them all of the time, and 75% of the rural breastfeeding mothers conceived between 24 and 29 months postpartum. An even more dramatic example of the effects of very frequent suckling is provided by the Kung tribe. (The exclamation point represents a clicking sound.) Anthropologists watched these people with stopwatches and found that the babies and toddlers were nursing an average of two minutes every 15 minutes, and the mothers were conceiving at about 35 months. Such extended periods of breastfeeding infertility are rarely seen in Western culture. First of all, only a few Western mothers nurse that long although their number seems to be increasing. Secondly, there is some speculation that the richer diet of Western women may contribute to an earlier return of fertility. 

When I Think of Child Development

“Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most important of all the things we can give to them is unconditional love. Not a love that depends on anything at all except that they are our children.”
 By Rosaleen Dickson



Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.”
By. Robert L. Evans



I would like that thank everyone for you support this past 8 weeks. If it wasn't for the motivation from you all I really dont think I would have been able to finish this class. Because of you I am able to continue my journey knowing that the this is just the beginning and something new and exciting. I would like to wish you all well and alwys keep your heads up and strive hard at whatever you sat out to do. Remember that the children are our future and no child should be left behind. 

Testing for Intelligence

In my opinion I feel that a ways to test for intelligence in a child can be done in several ways. Below I have listed a few of them ways: Not saying that all these test will work on every child to figure their intelligence level but this is what scientist feel is some ways an educator can test.  I am sure that in some parts of other countries they have their own way of testing, but you never know they may use some of the similar methods, but they testing may not be done exactly how it would be done here in the U.S.  due to technology. At the end of the day my big deal is that you must be able to have " TIME" to dedicate to the child in order to be able to accurately assess them in any way. I feel that time is the essences of all things.
Reading Comprehension:
Reading comprehension assessments are the most common type of published reading test that is available. The most common reading comprehension assessment involves asking a child to read a passage of text that is leveled appropriately for the child, and then asking some explicit, detailed questions about the content of the text.
Language Comprehension
Language comprehension can be assessed in basically the same way reading comprehension is assessed. With language comprehension assessment, however, the child should not be expected to read any text. Everything from the instructions to the comprehension questions should be presented verbally to the child.
Decoding
Decoding skill is measured through the child’s ability to read words out of context. Isolated words are presented to the child one at a time, and the child is asked to say the word aloud (this is not a vocabulary test, so children should not be expected to provide meanings for the word). The words selected for a decoding test should be words that are within the child’s spoken vocabulary, and should contain a mix of phonetically regular and phonetically irregular words.
Linguistic Knowledge
Linguistic Knowledge is the synthesis of three more basic cognitive elements -- phonology, semantics, and syntax. Linguistic knowledge is more than the sum of it's parts, but it does not lend itself to explicit assessment. A child may have a grasp on the more basic cognitive elements, but still have trouble blending these elements together into a stable linguistic structure. If a child appears to have a grasp of the more basic cognitive elements, but is still having difficulty expressing themselves or understanding others, it is likely that the child has not yet managed to synthesize those elements.




Reference
www.sedl.org/reading/framework/assessment.html

Hurrican Katrina

                                                                    My Katrina Babies

 I think that Hurrican Katrina impact on a lot of people, but I can remember very clearly I was just clocking in at work when I saw the breaking news on television. The first thing I thought about was one of my best friends that was pregnant and lived right by the Superdome. I instantly called and called and got no answer and then I called her mom that was in Pasagula, Ms that wasn't far from New Orleans and couldn't get in touch with her either. At that moment I began  to panic so desperate calls for depserate meeasure and I called her child's father and thankfully I was able to get in touch with him and he told be some disturbing news, but at the end everything was okay.
 As time went on I found that when the storm hit it knocked every line of communication out no matter what at then right when I began to calm down I paniced again because I knew my best friend was pregnant and she didn't know what was going on or what was going to happen and was stressing to the 100th power and that was the last thing she needed to be doing.
As time continue she was able to get out of New Orleans and was able to go to Texas with the remaining of her family and receive the medical attention she needed. She was very shaken up and became depressed and stressed because of what she experienced and of her lost that she actually went into premature labor and at this time she was only 7 months close to delivery but not close enough because she had already been experiencing complications previously. It seemed that now because of her life-threatening experience my best friend thankfully got birth to a healthy child, but she wasn't mentally stable to care for the child. She had stay hospitalized for 5 months while her mom and her child's father cared for the child. It got to a point she was not herself and she would have thoughts of suicide because she didn't know what to do. The only thing I could think about was the child that she had just brought into this world and the lack of motherly love the child would receive if  she continued down this road of destruction. I knew that the child would receive love, and nurture and be cared for but, it is nothing like a mother's touch. I think that because the child was just an fetus during this time she would still experience some biosocial, cognitive, and psycosocial development at she began to get older especially if she would have found out the fatal thoughts her mom had about suicide after the disaster but prayfully her mom came to and realize what was important to her.



                                                                         
                                                                                   My Guina Friends
I am sure there are other parts of the world that experience worst things than a natural disaster like Africa. I have a friend that is from Guina and she has 2 young children and I can remember times she has talked to me about the lack of food supply, and diseases that was in her country and how her coming to the United States was the only option she had for her and for her children. She knew that if she would have stayed that she would have had the burden of finding proper nutrition for her children, find medical attention, and also the proper education. Even though her mom is still over there she feels this is the best decision she made.

Child development and public health

Breastfeeding
      Breastfeeding is one of the most effective ways to ensure child health and survival. A lack of exclusive breastfeeding during the first six months of life contributes to over a million avoidable child deaths each year. Globally less than 40% of infants under six months of age are exclusively breastfed. Adequate breastfeeding support for mothers and families could save many young lives.
WHO actively promotes breastfeeding as the best source of nourishment for infants and young children. This fact file explores the many benefits of the practice, and how robust help for mothers can increase breastfeeding worldwide.
         The reason I chose breastfeeding because I know that one it is the most effective way of bonding with the child, two it can be a healthy way to ensure that the child is receiving nutrition, but the downfall to breastfeeding is that it is an effective way to pass diseases to your child. The feel that with this particular topic this is information that will continue to change as years pass. There will always be way to were doctors try to keep breast-feeding as a number one source of nutrition for the child and it will allow people like myself that doesnt have kids yet to gain more knowledge of the topic and how it can effect the child. 
  However babies who are exclusively breast-fed are less likely to get sick, because breast milk provides them with antibodies against any disease that the mother is immune. Breast- feeding also decrease the risk of many diseases that appear in childhood and adulthood, among them asthma, obesity, and heart disease.
          Breastfeeding in other countries
The world's oldest and still most widely practiced form of birth regulation is breastfeeding. That statement draws much skepticism among ordinary people in Western culture, but it is recognized as still true by professionals in the fields of international demography and infant nutrition because they know how breastfeeding affects both health and birth intervals in primitive cultures around the world. A professor of pediatrics put it this way: "Demographic data recorded prior to the 20th century from birth records all over the world indicate that the average spacing of children was about two years when mother's milk supplied the major source of calories for infants during the first year to 1.5 years of life."
In the West African country of Rwanda, a culture in which there were no contraceptives or taboos against intercourse after birth at the time, there were no differences in the birth intervals of bottle feeding mothers in the city compared to those in the rural areas. On the other hand, among breastfeeding mothers, there were significant differences. Among the city mothers who were already developing patterns of separation from their babies, 75% conceived between 6 and 15 months postpartum. However, in the rural areas, mothers had their babies with them all of the time, and 75% of the rural breastfeeding mothers conceived between 24 and 29 months postpartum. An even more dramatic example of the effects of very frequent suckling is provided by the Kung tribe. (The exclamation point represents a clicking sound.) Anthropologists watched these people with stopwatches and found that the babies and toddlers were nursing an average of two minutes every 15 minutes, and the mothers were conceiving at about 35 months. Such extended periods of breastfeeding infertility are rarely seen in Western culture. First of all, only a few Western mothers nurse that long although their number seems to be increasing. Secondly, there is some speculation that the richer diet of Western women may contribute to an earlier return of fertility.