A quote that you find inspirational regarding
the role that advocacy can have in the lives of young children and their
families. Then, post responses to the following:
"Let us think of
education as the means of Developing Our Greatest Abilities, because in each of
us there is a private Hope and Dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into
benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation." By John F.
Kennedy
"Its
easier to build children than to repair broken men." By Frederick Douglass
"Aim
for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then
you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.
Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism." By David M. Burns
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What inspires and
excites you most about your advocacy plan and being an advocate?
What excites inspires me and excites me most about my advocacy
plan and being an advocate is communicating with other people and connecting
with them because we highly recommend for parents to get involved in the
education of young children in an Early Head Start program. It’s excites me to
just see the few parents that I do see participate and is willing to help
involved more parents. Being an advocate is very important because I feel that
I can make a difference in the lives of our young children and their parents or
families when it comes to parent involvement. I know that when children see
their parents in their program they get excited and their little friends does too.
They would look at the child and say “there goes your mommy” or “there goes
your daddy.”
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What challenges and/or
anxieties do you feel related to engaging in the advocacy efforts you have
targeted?
The challenge I feel related to engaging the advocacy efforts I
have target is involvement of the teen parents. They in school such as high
school or they go to college and claim they do not have time. But it look like
they do have the time when they come pick up their child because some of the
parents go to college part time, therefore if they drop their child off at 6:00am
or 7:00am- they should not be picking their child up from daycare at 6:00p.m.
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What do you believe
will be most effective in helping you overcome any challenging emotions you may
be feeling with regard to presenting and implementing your Advocacy Action
Plan?
I believe that by teen parents going to school part-time and
their child being enroll for about 3-4 days out of the week, then on that one
day, I can hold a meeting to hear from them as well about ways of involving
them as well in the education of their child. If I can just involve the teen
parents I will be alright, I have no problem with implementing my advocacy
plan.
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How can you encourage
others in their advocacy efforts, and how can others encourage you?
I am being encouraged just by communicating with parents during
departure time because they are sitting up there in the center waiting for the
school bus to pull up so that they can get their older children off the bus.
They are interested in my plan, and is willing to help other come out and join.
