Freedom...you just have to choose

I read this quote today and really liked it. I live in America and just recently celebrated our Independence Day. It was amazing watching others get out and share their love of their homeland. I really enjoyed watching my children enjoy the parade and fireworks. We came together as visitors to a town I grew up in. The quoted individual is a new and upcoming young lady, Candace Owens. She really speaks for all people, especially those who live in America a place where it is said to be the land of the free and home of the brave.  She said, “In a truly free society, individuals are granted responsibility for themselves. Freedom necessitates that we learn how to provide for ourselves, contributing value in whatever form, to generate personal income. We then decide how we wish to spend or save earned income; freedom is the reward for fulfilling personal responsibilities." To truly be brave we must stand up for and follow a path that makes us proud to be who we are. 

I enjoyed this quote, this is what we as teachers and adults leading young children should be teaching. It is so important to be able to think freely, this is what God wants. As a believer in God I know that we are guided to do right, but also to take our lessons and follow our own path. I wish for others to be able to follow their own path as I have done for my life. I pray that our children and their children get to follow their own path and not one that is dictated to them. If knowledge is power I hope they gain enough knowledge to move forward and make decisions based on what they know and where they want to go from there.  

Do not continue to follow a path that does not make it easy to lay down and get a good rest at night. You can make a change in your life starting today, tomorrow, or the next morrow...There is no time like now, but you have to decide when you want to follow your path to happiness and success.

As a parent and teacher I spend my days educating children, the future leaders. I spend even more time educating my own children and taking down barriers. This is what teachers and leaders do all day long. The more we teach others the more barriers we break down. As a mother I do my best to help my children to see what it would be like to be in different situations including to live and feel as if they are in someone else's shoes, like living in different times, countries, and cultures. This teaches them how to tolerate differences by accepting them. Does this mean that my children have to change their beliefs? Not really, but they should tolerate others and theirs. Hellen Keller once said that the highest result of education is tolerance. I hope that I can help my own children to become tolerant of others. I also hope that I can teach my students about difference by not impeding on their own beliefs. I will never push information on someone's child that is un wanted and unaccepted. I have an important job, it is to teach lessons that help others achieve. So, though I will teach literacy, math, and science, I will also teach culture, and history, and geography in hopes to help others grow their own tolerance. I hope for you that you tolerate others. Do not let down your guard, this does not mean to allow mischief and malice in, it means to know right from wrong but to still treat others with the respect you wish to be treated with. 

Yet another quote that makes me think...

Albert Einstein stated "it is not that I am so smart, it is just that I stay with problems longer. What this means is that he spends times with his problems and finds a real solution. It is not simple to learn or get a good education, many of us experience many challenges during our education that others do not, which really adds to our education. For that matter, we experience life and that adds to what we learn. You really have to believe in yourself and never give up if you wish to learn. So I wish for you to stick it out and learn what you find interesting, and come by other knowledge on the way.  

Any Questions...

As a professional, with many different certifications, I feel that my strength is in finding how to help others no matter what they need. Does this mean I have answers, yes, all of the answers...nope. However, it does mean I will seek until I help you find peace. So, if you have any questions about mental health, education, art, and so on...ask me, lets see where we can take it. 

Advice is funny...

I think it is funny, advice we give and take. It is so interesting how we are such different beings that no matter what we need to know or hear can sound so different based on who tells us or how they tell us. The other really interesting and funny thing is that we can so easily give advice to others that we sometimes forget to take for ourselves. I wish you all the open-mindedness that you need to accept. Those that are open-minded are not concerned with being right, they just wish to learn and to help. Please know that this is why I write on this blog. I know there is no black and white in a situation. There are tons of gray areas and though I say make sure you are right and go for it, I mean, make sure it feels right to you. Understand and find peace and follow the advice that leads you in that direction.