Relationships Reflection

 “You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.”  ~Frederick Buechner

Relationships are important in my life because, as a social person, I am the result of those relationships, especially the ones I have with my husband and family, who are the most important people in my life, even though I am not with my family because they are in Mexico, I try to talk to them as often as I can, reminding them how much I love and miss them, so they say these to me.

From my husband I have gotten the support I need when I feel weak or about to quite any project because I feel that I cannot handle it, he encourages me with his words and acts, like when I just started this masters, I felt overwhelmed with my job, the house, this master, and other activities, he relieved me cooperating more with house chores and reminding me that I am a capable person.

Other important relationships are the ones I have established with my friends in Mexico and here, having in common interests, believes, traditions, and practices, I think of them as my siblings living in other houses because there is no way that only one couple could handle us all together under the same roof.

My supervisor and coworkers are other important people in my current life, with them I share professional and/or personal interests, our achievements and concerns regarding families and children, as well as the community we serve. At the beginning of this school year, there were two new teachers in my center, and this fact made a huge positive change, because now we all are willing to work as a team supporting each other, being responsible for assigned tasks, and establishing good communication among us. But over the three past years it was almost impossible to create a cooperative environment, because other coworkers were just focused on their own interests, I would say that they were selfish; just as an example of what they used to do, they did not want to share, exchange or rotate classroom materials with others; how can you ask a preschooler to share if you, as the teacher, are not doing it? I cannot understand this attitude.

Other important relationships are the ones I establish with my children’s families that are like the foundation of my job, because based on the information I get from them is that I am able to better work with their child, and I can also do my best to be in the same page they are at and help them and the child to get what they value more as a family.

Since all people act, think, and are different, relationships can be a change, but we must be clever and choose our battles, thinking about tolerance, respect, and commitment as the main characteristics in the establishment of any relationship.