Which issues impacting young children and their families and or the field of early childhood fuel your passion?
Issues concerning children’s wellbeing, education, and health fuel my passion. I know of a family that had a child prematurely and the child had to stay in the hospital for quiete some time. The mom’s maternity leave was up she had to return back to work before the child was release from the hospital. Any additional time needed for the mom to spend caring for her child was denied through the employer and therefore the mom quite the job. An additional financial strain was placed on the family’s already emotional journey. An issue such as this needs attention brought to it and allow parents paid leave in situations like this.
What special skills do you have that will contribute to your advocacy efforts? How will you incorporate these skills into your work?
I possess skills of advancing my own interests of curiosity, taking action to influence social, political and risky topics in this diverse field. All the while remaining eager and energetic.
In what ways do you hope to grow in order to be a more effective advocate?
I hope to expand my knowledge of more issues plauging young children and their families. While asserting myself into a range of topics that focus on policy making, serving the peple by joining community committees and utlizing my knowledge to advance my career.
The story of the mother having her child stay at the hospital reminds me of something I learned in one of my graduate classes. We need to learn the experiences of the person that we deal with. The mother has an experience that not many of us ever had. One of my friends told me that the day that she left the hospital without her baby who was in NICU was the hardest day of her life. Before she told me, I never thought about how parents do leave the hospital without their newborns. We as early childhood educators need to remember that all of the parents and children have their stories, and we need to listen to them.
ReplyDeleteThe story of the mother having a baby prematurely makes my blood boil! It is so upsetting to me that our society allows things like that to happen. What is even more upsetting is reading about the maternity/paternity leave practices in other countries. We have the worst leave benefits of almost any other society.
ReplyDeleteThe story of the mother having a baby prematurely makes my blood boil! It is so upsetting to me that our society allows things like that to happen. What is even more upsetting is reading about the maternity/paternity leave practices in other countries. We have the worst leave benefits of almost any other society.
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