My Supports

My support system is my daughter, brothers, father, godparents, and colleagues at

the job, church, friends  and the professor. My daughter is only thirteen years old and by me

being a single parent she see what I go through as getting my college education. I make sure that

her needs are meet and sometimes she wake up in the middle of the night and she be like “mom

you still up doing your homework and I be like yes” so sometimes she be like mom “I am so

proud of  you”. She is my motivation of keeping me doing the best that I can do. My brothers,

father, and godparents have been a big inspiration since my mother’s death. My plans was not

get a master’s degree but when I receive my Bachelor’s degree my brothers was like you know

what is next. I was like what’s next I am chilling no more degrees and they was like you need to

go for your master degree.  They gave me the motivation to get my master’s degree.

            My professors, colleagues at the job, friends and the motivates to continue to

get my education and do the best I can. I look up to the professor of Ilene Britt because she was

my advisor at Durham Technical Community college when I was getting my associate’s degree

in early childhood. She seen the determination that I had and I was eager student and love being

a teacher in the early childhood education. I still talk to her about advice and career moves that I

want to make and she be like you can do it. Since my mother’s death my friends has step in of

picking up my daughter when she has cheerleading practice while I am still at work or when she

has tutoring at school. My mother use to do these things for me so I will appreciate my friends

of helping me out when it comes to my daughter. If these people were not in my life I do not

know how I will make it. I appreciate how they are there for me in my darkest days of losing my

mother, the phone calls, a shoulder to cry on, but I also lean on GOD to give me the strength to

make it through. My colleagues on the job look up to me at work when they want to further they

education in early childhood of getting their associate and bachelors degree. They ask me

how did I start out with classes and how do I do it of taking care of my daughter and working

a full-time job and tell them if I can do you can do it to. I told them it takes determination and

self displine.

            The challenge for me is being a single parent, working a full time job, and going to

 college. It gets challenge for me when my daughter goes back to school, working full time,

my daughter doing extra curriculum activities such as cheerleading and dancing. Sometimes I do

not know if I am coming and going but that is when my support system gives me a helping hand

and helps me out. My support system keeps me positive and they are so encouraging and

supportive of anything I do. The most important thing is they tell me they love me a lot and that

 means more to me than anything. It is the littlest thing a person can do to be so supportive and

encouraging.