My Connections to Play

When I was younger, play was supported by all family members.  I remember being at my grandmother's house and she would let my cousin and myself go outside to play with our friend from across the street. We played jump rope, hop scotch, kickball, and we skated. When I was 7 years old, my cousin taught me how to skate and I have been skating since then. Play is a lt different now than when I was growing up. When I look at the children today, they don't go outside anymore because of all he technology that's available to them such as video games and computers.There is not physical play unless they are at school and that's why there is so much obesity in children today. I feel that parents need to make sure that their child is getting some physical play each day or at least 3-4 times a week to keep the child healthy. Beow, is a picture of some things that I enjoyed playing with when I was younger. The first picture is my brother, and two cousins playing video games. The second picture is a  pair of skates because I use to skate often with my cousin Shayla. The third picture is a jumping rope because we use to have jump rope contest and I would win some and she would win some. The last pictures is super mario brother because we played super mario brothers all the time.

Relationship Reflection

A relationship is a relation between people. Each of us has a variety of relationships with other people in our lives. Each of us has casual acquaintances. People we know a little bit about, but not too much. With socal networks like Facebook growing, people have more and more of these casual acquaintances. Then we have friends, people we communicate regularly with. All of us have friends at work, in our neighborhoods, at our schools or in our church. We have less friends than casual acquaintances. Then we have close friends, people that we share with on a deeper level what’s going on in our lives. Most people don’t have a lot of close friends, but our close friends are important to us. Some are closer than others. Then we have business partners, people that we are in business with.

Research shows that people who have a strong social network tend to live longer, the heart and blood pressure of people with healthy relationships respond better to stress, strong social networks are associated with a healthier endocrine system and healthier cardiovascular functioning, and healthy social networks enhance the immune system's ability to fight off infectious diseases.

The relationship can be a business relationship and a casual relationship. In the pictures above, I showed different examples of the relationships that I have with them. These are pictures of my family. We all have positive and strong relationships/partnerships. All of these people help contribute to my succes. They all are positive and I feel that is one great factor that they all have. I always associate myself around positive people because it affects me in a positive or negative way.  Relationships can have a great impact on your life so we should always have healthy relationships.