MY RELATIONSHIP REFLECTION:

Family Involvement, Freedom of Expression, and Teamwork

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Why my mother is important to me: She is involved.

Relationships are important –no doubt. Having commonality, good company, and casual conversations boost one’s self and spirit. Having a positive relationship produces the motivation and urge to complete tasks and do well –gives desire to reach a goal. Having a relationship like the relationship I have with my mother I have found that because of her care and love for me family involvement is essential. I am able to dream big and worry less with her around. Her support aspires me and I believe this is why my relationship with my mother is so important.

  

Freedom of Expression: My twin and I are the Same

Relationships involve likes and dislikes, trust, and friendship. I find the freedom to express myself and be myself around my twin sister, Amber. She allows me to rant and rave, laugh and cry, and most importantly, she feels what I feel. Our relationship started waaaaay before birth and I believe my relationship with my twin sister is important because she gets me.

 

        Amber (Left)  Me (Right)

Why my Dog is my Best Friend: Holly and I make a Great Team

Relationships come in various forms. A relationship inspires when there is mutual feeling, when there is understanding, and when there is PATIENCE. My dog Holly is my best friend. She is, in fact, the furriest friend I have and the most challenging relationship I can think of. She was love at first sight. When I say relationships come in various forms, not all relationships acquire human to human, after all, a dog is a man’s best friend. After adopting Holly I decided teamwork was essential in order for our relationship to work. Teamwork meaning walk with me, not against me for example. My relationship with my dog Holly is having patience and teamwork.

    

The Positives of Relationships in My Experience

·        Family involvement

·        Freedom of Expression

·        Teamwork + Patience

Family involvement is core to my family’s principles. Everything I did as a child, everything I decide, and where I may have wandered growing up my mother was involved. She encouraged education and to be fearless. She taught me to take chances and learn from mistakes. According to research, children who have family involvement are most likely to succeed. This entices self-confidence and regulation, creative thinking and affection onto others. Involvement also helps children develop and learn academically (Souto-Manning, 2010). My mother homeschooled me when I was young and has taught me life’s biggest lessons. If not for my mother I would have no aspirations career wise.

What I find positive, other than seeing involvement, is freedom. Freedom to speak and freedom to be yourself. This positive factor makes relationship easy to oblige by. My twin sister, Amber has allowed me the ability to express myself which has taught me to be socially in tune and accept others at the same time being myself.

Lastly, a factor that I have learned crucial to relationships is teamwork. Without teamwork, a relationship is simply not there. “I scratch your back, you scratch mine” is the old saying. But with teamwork there has to be patience. Taking care and training my dog, my best friend, I have gained a lot of patience building relationship which, in the end, involves teamwork.

Uh-Oh: The challenges of Relationships

Without family involvement, the freedom to express one’s self, or maintaining teamwork and patience there is no inspiration to a relationship. In my experience, if my mother was NOT involved in my social and academic careers I would be a different person- I would not have a positive relationship with her.

If I was unable to be myself around my twin sister Amber having to act and behave under conformity and pressure I would not have an open and honest relationship with her or anyone I associate with. Research suggests that lack of being one’s self symptoms such anxiety, self-consciousness, and worried tensions influence depression and possible isolation (Beilock, 2012). Sincerely, it is important to be yourself.

Even though Holly is my dog, she is my best friend. Four legs or not, teamwork is essential in order to succeed relationship and patience. Without teamwork frustration, anger, and even loneliness will invade and trust will dwindle which is not good for anyone.

Special Characteristics of Positive Relationships

RESPECT VALUE  TRUST  KISSES   PERSONALITY

AGREE  ENTHUSIASM   LICKS   WALKS   TEAMWORK

INVOLVE  PROUD   RECEPTIVE  ENJOYABLE   EXPERIENCE  LAUGHTER

WARMTH   PERSONALITY   EXPRESSION

                     

In My Experience

In my experience, relationships are taken to the heart. Being raised by an involved mother, always having a close friend like my twin sister Amber, and finding different sorts of relationships as the one I have found with my dog Holly, I can honestly say that as a professional in the child care field I learned that helping those in need, providing nurture, attention, and patience I am in the right field. Teaching children as my mother has taught me and accepting others without judgment I am able to benefit child development and learning. Thanks to the positive relationships I have gained in my lifetime, I am excited to recognize relationships are the foundation to success and our success onto others.

Works Cited

Beilock, S. (2012, September 19). The Power of Expressing Yourself. Retrieved from Psychology Today: http://www.psychologytoday.com

Souto-Manning, M. (2010). Family Involvement: Challenges to Consider, Strengths to Build on. Young Children, 65(2), 82-88. Retrieved from Walden Database