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Alderson Funeral Home of Waterbury
9 Holmes Avenue
Waterbury, Connecticut, United States
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New Pine Grove Cemetery
850 Meriden Road
Waterbury, Connecticut, United States
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aubrie Lockhart posted a condolence
Friday, June 21, 2013
just wanted to say thank you Elaine Daly for posting those writings. reading them brightened my day by reminding me why I loved her so much
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elaine daly posted a condolence
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Most feel that it can be done that or that it's hard to do. I have been down this path before; and sometimes it can be a very lonely one. I have been trying to continue my education before. I have made three attempts to go back to school. I would start school and then something happen, in the past, the timing was wrong. Some of the obstacles that had always stop me was working, lack of money, not accustom to being in class with younger students and I had no for the course I was studying. This being my final step at this stage in my life, I'm in a career field that I love it completing school can be done.
With my history of starting school and not being able to complete it made everyone including me have doubts that it will ever be done. I have started school over and over again and it never seems to work out. I've tried being in a classroom, that was not the best idea for me. I couldn't get the hang of waking up to be in class at eight in the morning. That should have been my clue that something was wrong. I know that I would normally wake up to be at work at seven am. My thought to myself was why I couldn't wake up for school. Then during the semester I got a promotion from work. I was giving the chance to make more money, but have been unable to continue going to school in the mornings. The next recent attempt was online. What I found out about this was not working I had so many classes at onetime that I became overloaded and didn't feel interested in what needed to be learned. When a co-worker of mine said she was thinking about going back to school I explained what I went through and she recommended Ashford University. I did some online research and loved the information that I found. The process of getting loans and signing up made it so much easier to return to school even though I was scared.
I thought that this won't be able to work. I will not have the time, plus I knew that I was still looking for second in come. I was sitting a home one day and it came to me that the time I was sitting watching TV I could be doing school work. And while most people don't want to admit it money was a factor in me starting school again. I knew that I want to have a great retirement package when I'm older and won't have to keep working on the side just to get by. I knew I did not want to have to continue working two jobs for the rest of my life and that education was the key. I honestly thought the class work would be an overload and that I would have a hard time getting the swing of things again. Every day that past I felt stuck, like my life was going nowhere that I needed help, I needed to get out of the rut that I was in. I needed to make a change and invest in myself. I enjoyed working with clients with developmental disability, traumatic brain injury, and mental retardation. While working in the group homes I began to work with a behavioral analyst and enjoyed the information that was being passed on. The behavior programs that were being written to help each client were very good but needs improvement. The programs did not have the point of view from the direct support staff point of view. Each program was more based on paper work than what is really going on in the houses. I want to change all of that.
Now in a field that I love and knowing the possibilities that can come from this is a meaning full thing. I thought back to years ago when people with these disabilities were never seen in public or never at home with family. The public; didn't not understand how to deal with people with these conditions. They would shy away from getting to know them. Now you will be able to go into many super markets and see these highly develop ones. These people are capable of living a normal life like everyone else. So while working in this field it made me want to help the public and family understand how to deal with these people and the behavior they have. Knowing that I have a passion for the work that I'm already doing and realizing that I can be one of the future worker to come and make a difference was the motivation I needed to continue my education.
In the end I told myself that there will be no more playing around so to speak. This had to be something that worked out in the end. I have tried so many times to complete my education to a point that I will be happy and comfortable. While you never stop learning, I know that I won't let my jobs come in the way of continuing my education. I will take it a day at a time and get through school one foot in front the other. I want to make a difference to future generations to come. I want to prove it to myself that this investment will pay off in the end.
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Elaine posted a condolence
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
1) What was your family like?
A. Jamaican born outside the US
B. Never lived with mother or father
C. Close nit only because of housing
D. Very old fashion in a new age world
2) What were you like as a teenager?
A. A mother
B. working
C. Having a lot of disappointment
3) What are your greatest achievements so far?
A. Graduated from high school
B. A mother
C. Full time job
4) What would make you happy in the future?
A. Getting my BA and then going for my Masters
B. Having a college fund for my son
C. Developing a mentoring program for teenage mothers
D. Having a comfortable retirement and healthy life.
If you ask any child what they want to be when they grow up, you will get some of the most color full answers. In this reflection I will take you through my journey from my childhood to I want to accomplish in the future years to come. For all the dreamers out there keep dreaming it can be your motivation and most of your dreams will be goals to achieve. I know that I wanted to be a teacher by the fourth grade and a lawyer by the sixth grade, "how life changes!"
Urie Bronfenbrenner proposed a theory call the Ecological Theory. This theory states that human development is best explained in terms of the interaction between individuals and the environment in which they live or have lived. He broke this theory down to five context of influence development. The macrosystem, the exosystem, microsystem, mesosytem and the individual are the five contexts (Bronfenbrenner 1979). The mesosytem and the microsystem go hand in in hand. They refer to a child's influence, that fighting parents at home can hinder a child's performance at school. In my childhood my mesosytem and microsystem was a big influence on me and not all of them were good. I was born in Jamaica, new to the United States in 1995. I already had a hard start. I never lived with my mother and father, so I never knew true love of a parent. I lived with my grandmother and aunts. From the outside you would think that we were a close nit family. That was only because on finances we were forced to live one home. That didn't really work out all that well for the kids in that home. There we a lot of fighting and believe me know words were ever held back. The fighting was mostly based on how they feel we should be raised. My grandparents were still very old fashion and set in there ways. I was looking for going out with classmates and enjoying what this new world had to offer me. They wanted the kids to stay close to home as we did when we were in Jamaica. With these problems I wanted freedom and when I got an inch I took the mile. But I never thought that I would be a teen age mother.
Being a teenage mother changed everything for me. I realized that my plans for the future would have to change. I knew that law school was out of the question for me. I knew that a child takes money that I would have to earn on my own. I was very hard to listen every day to people that if you have a baby as a teenager that you have ruined your life. According to Erik Erikson, who followed Bronfenbrenner, believed that there are eight stages in human development. He called his idea the epigenetic principal. Being a teen mom in stage five of development, identity versus role confusion, was very different for me. Instead of trying to discover who I really am I was living life knowing that I was a mother and my dreams had to be set aside and do what was best for him. In other words I was too busy working and going to school and taking care of my child to worry about what others think. By this age in my life I was already disappointed in my family, they through me out on the streets with a child and told me that I would never make it in life. So from those words were spoken, I started working to prove them all wrong. I started working at 14 years old, still going to school. I was very thankful that school was never a hard area for me. I just would have to learn the material and the information was very easy to process. With all the disappointment I was happy to have teacher who believed in me.
It was after graduation that I had to take a look at my life and see what I have accomplished so far, what I need to work on and what knew goals were realistic to plan for. I knew that I was happy that I was still employed, with a promotion for a shift supervisor. I was on top of the world that I had walked across the graduation stage. I was in my down apartment own car and my son was doing very well in school. I am now attending college for the third time, but they say third time is the charm. I feel that I'm doing very well. I have proven to myself and family that they should not put a person down in life for a mistake that turned out to be a blessing. My hard times in life have made me care so much more for others in life. That compassion for other brought me to working as a life skill instructor. I take care of people with traumatic brain injury, acquired brain injury and mental retardation. I help with daily living skills that we as normal functioning people take for granted, like brushing your teeth or even making your own meal. I love this job and while it comes with stress I can live with that because at the end of the day I make a difference.
I have looked at my past my present and what I would like for my future what would make me happy. I want to complete school getting my Bachelors and continue on for my Master's degree. With this I hope to have a very successful in my career, yes I'm looking for the money that comes with the education. This will allow me to have a very good college fund for my son. It amazes me how the years fly by and how much motivation he has giving me in life. I want that when I enter my middle adulthood that my life is very comfortable that I have lived up to my super ego so to speak. I want to then return to my high school and start a mentoring program. I know that the program that I had while in school was very helpful to me on the days I wanted to quit. I want this program to be part of a non-profit organization. With this I want to develop a housing program for these moms. While they attend school they will have a place to stay and baby sitters. They will work and get good grades. My hope for this program is to help them realize that there is someone out there that care when family don't, and have been through it too. I would love to have my son in college doing well and a great retirement package so I will be able to develop this program well into my late adult hood and grow old and happy.
In the end we as humans go through many different things. We realize as we grow old the affect our parents and family members have on us. How our actions affect the people and world around us. I realized that my difficult past make me want continue to work better for my future. To leave a mark on the world with a program that is there to help after things go wrong. Making knew goals happen every day. It is part of us as humans to always keep dream and making them become reality.
Reference:
Witt G.A, Mossler R.A. (2010) http:/content.ashford.edu/books/4
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Ruth Gayle posted a condolence
Friday, April 19, 2013
my condolences goes out to the family Simone was like a daughter to me she lived with me for
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aubrie Lockhart posted a condolence
Thursday, April 18, 2013
you are surly missed. It's hard to fathom that such a vibrant, funny, beautiful woman can be taken from us so soon. your laugh, smile, understanding, and ability too care about everyone around you it's hard to find in one person but you had it down. not to mention the outstanding mother you were. I will always love my jamone
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