PERSONAL REFLECTION

Personal reflection based on current life stages

Personal reflection based on current life stages

Introduction

I am 36 years old and a single parent of four beautiful children, and a certified Nursing assist, and have struggled a lot in my life with them, and me trying to attend school. I am in the growing and development stage as I am trying for my LVN to be a registered nurse and have my own home care. Leaving school has been hard for me because of the current stage of my life after graduating in 1994 from high school, being in the medical field ever since. Being in the early adulthood period, I am faced with ever changing facts and elements affecting my life. Struggling to grow and develop, I face tremendous stress, coping with my work, children and school at the same time.

Analytic intelligence

Working as a mother of four children, and attending school makes me realize the effect it has on me, be it because of stress, or simply my age. During the time, I was not going to school for my LVN, I have a very good attention span and ability to focus and think in terms of strategic goals and my aims. As a career oriented women, I was quite content with my abilities, as a nursing assist, and a mother, always being able to work well at work, and at home both.

It was easy for me to manage and spent time with my children, but growing older deprived me of energy to play with my children as I could do earlier, although my intellectual ability was satisfactory and to my knowledge growing with age. Once I started school, to end what I started and get my LVN, I could feel the stress having its toll on me. My ability to absorb information became limited due to the immense information I absorb either intentionally or unintentionally while at home, work, or school.

I feel that more of my energy and planning at this point are focused on shorter term goals, along with my long term goals, in the back seat, and a mother and a worker, I see every day as a fierce challenge. Although my logical and comprehension skills remained practical, my steps to cope with stress were effective; the work load of my life did have its effect on my intellectual ability, as can be expected at this stage of life.

Women's work

A woman in the workplace is not something new, but the biases may still exist. I have been expected to be a mother, a nursing assist, and an outstanding student, also have my caring and loving nature that is always associated with women or females, referred to feminization. As women and a mother who is working, and studying at the same time, I can understand this, but it puts pressure on women everywhere to be something they may not be any more. In my opinion, this perception is a double edge sword, keeping in mind, in today's world, ...