Relationship Reflection

Relationships/partnerships are important to me because they are valuable to me.  They enable me to determine who I can trust, and they stimulate me cognitively, emotionally, and socially.  Relationships/partnerships help me with thoughts and ideas as I am able to monitor how I would communicate them to people whom I am comfortable around to trust.  When I am comfortable around someone, I can trust that individual, and I know that I can be myself without being judged.  Relationships/partnerships are emotionally stimulating to me because continual engagement in settings in which I can express myself keeps me balanced, for they provide me with support when necessary.  From a social aspect, relationships/partnerships are helpful to me because the more I am able to communicate with others, the better I am as a critical thinker, listener, problem solver, and friend.  In other words, relationships/partnerships are very important to my overall well-being.
            Furthermore, there are at least four people in my life who I currently have positive relationships with, and they are my mother, my sister, my niece, and my nephew.  I have a positive relationship with my mother because she has always been my emotional and moral support system.  She gives me advice all the time on how to deal with whatever life circumstances I face.  I also have a positive relationship with my sister because I talk to her all the time, for we are extremely close.  We support each when we are dealing with life situations, and we love to have long conversations.  Furthermore, I have a positive relationship with my niece and nephew because they look up to me, and they know that I respect them and love them so much that they are comfortable with telling me about and trusting me with their lives.  The main factor to developing and maintaining these relationships is love.  Because we love each other so much, it is easy to reciprocate feelings of gratitude whenever we are around each other. Another factor that has allowed me to develop and maintain these relationships is trust.  I cannot have relationships with people I do not trust them, and it would make me uncomfortable to do so. Although I have great relationships with the aforementioned people, developing and maintaining relationships can be a challenge.
            Sometimes, relationships are hard to create and harder to maintain.  To explain, relationships can be hard to establish, especially when a person has trust issues and if a person is not sociable. Many people do not want others to know about them because they would not want the information they shared with another person to backfire on them. Even when maintaining a relationship, both parties have to continue to be cautious so that they do not offend each other or do something that can cause the relationship to cease.  It takes work to develop and to maintain relationships, but both parties have to want to make them valuable.
            To expand, one of the most important characteristics of a relationship/partnership is time. When someone spends time in a relationship/partnership, it lets the other person know that he or she is invested in the relationship and the relationship becomes a special one.  Also, in a relationship/partnership, another characteristic to have is communication.  Communication is important because when done effectively, a relationship/partner can function smoothly. Its time and communication is not part of a relationship/partnership, then the connection will be tough to maintain.
To continue, having the ability to be an active and reflective contributor in a relationship impacts my work as an early childhood professional because I have to be willing to connect with children (when I am teaching them), colleagues in the field, and parents. Establishing relationships with children, their parents and my cohorts will provide myself with the opportunity to learn from them as well as share knowledge with them. When we all are learning together, it makes education for the children better, and therefore, the impact that is made upon my work in the early childhood field is crucial to my success as a professional. Relationships can place all parties on the same page, and communication is easy to facilitate.  Without relationships, my work as an early childhood professional would be stagnated because I would not be able to grow in knowledge and learn best practices to apply in the classroom.



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  1. AnonymousSeptember 16, 2017 at 10:01 PM

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  2. BSeptember 16, 2017 at 10:03 PM

    Teresa,

    What a well thought out and well written reflection on the value that relationships add to our personal and professional lives. You speak to how our lives are enriched by the relationships we build and how we grow as people through our relationships with others. You did a beautiful job noting that we are both learners and teachers in our relationships. Thank you so much for sharing.

    Best,
    Beatriz

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 17, 2017 at 3:59 PM

    Thank you for your for your blog post, I absolutely enjoyed the reading. I feel you did an excellent job talking about relationships. I liked you comments about teachers and relationships, Such a well thought out Blog post.

    LW

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  4. AnonymousSeptember 17, 2017 at 8:10 PM

    Reading your blog made me think about the relationships in my life. You speaking about your family shows that you love them. Maintaining a relationships is about sacrifice and if your value that relationship, you will sacrifice.

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