Friday, July 24, 2015

Childhood Connection to Play...



     I am 5 years old with my sister, brother and two of my cousins at a small stream. My mom, who sat two feet away from us, to make sure we were playing safe and not hurting each other. We were given a shovel, bucket, light, thin blanket, and a play fishing pole. The stream was very small and the water was calm enough for us to walk through it and find rocks, sticks and tad poles. My sister and I starting looking for big enough sticks to make us a little tent to keep cool, while my brother and two cousins were out in the stream looking for rocks, tad poles, leaves, sand and acting like they were fishing. My sister started to make the tent with the sticks found and placed the blanket over the sticks. I gathered the leaves that were picked up by my brother and placed them like into a plate, grabbed two handfuls of mud and started shaping the mud into a pie. I placed flowers I found around the stream and any tiny pebbles to make decorations with the mud pie. Between my brother and two cousins, they found ten tad poles that was placed in the bucket. The tad poles became our pet and raised it until it became frogs. 
     After I was done with the mud pie. My sister and I go walking in the stream looking for pretty rocks or flowers, big branches and collecting sticks to bring to the tent. The branches were to use it as a broom to sweep the area so we can lay down like it was cement. The sticks was to make a bomb fire to cook dinner. I went out to the stream myself and try catching tadpoles. They are quick little suckers, but I managed to get one out of the many I saw. We laughed, splashed water at each other, slipped a few times, and went back and forth until we got tired. We all came back to the little tent that was built and relaxed. It was not too long afterwards my mom said it was time to go home. We were still damp from the water, dirty feet, bucket full of tadpoles, tired, hungry, and ready to go home.





Saturday, July 11, 2015

Reflecting on Building Relationships

Good relationships don’t just happen, It takes time and patience. Communication is the best keyword.

Source : http://www.coolnsmart.com/relationship_quotes/


14 years of friendship. We have been dragged through the mud, cried, laughed, fought, and had long talks together. We have our lives to take of, but we always have the time for each other and talked like there is no tomorrow.  Others would try to tears apart, but we managed to get through any barriers to not let the friendship go down the drain. 



My fiance, Scott who has been there for me when I was almost homeless and helped me through the hardships of life. We have always kept an open communication between us so we understood each other. We have argued, laughed, and had deep conversations about life itself. He can completely drive me insane, but he is my better half when I am at my worse. I honestly wouldn't where I would be if it wasn't for him.


Relationships are not just built overnight. It takes time and a strong foundation to make sure any relationship work, whether it is with a significant other, friends, parents, clients, or families. According to Alva Deluna, one has to understand oneself before opening up to someone and having a relationship with an openness. When all your bias is set aside and have an open mind about the individual, the relationship will be positive and the individuals are more comfortable with you. 

Trust is a key in any relation and do not need to convince anyone to prove it. If there is need to prove it then believe me there was nothing in your relation. 

Sanjiv Dogra – Toronto

Source : http://www.coolnsmart.com/relationship_quotes/
Laureate Education (Producer). (2013). Building relationships and partnering with families [Video file]