To me, support means to give active help and
encouragement to someone. It could be
money, helpful advice, voluntary work, and so on.
The factors within my daily environment that are
supportive to me are: Weekly minder – in the person of my
mother who helps to take care of my nine year old boy by monitoring his getting
ready for school in the morning and his coming back in the afternoon, ensuring
the completion of his assignment, I monitor him on weekends. This has been beneficial to me in that I am
able to concentrate and more relaxed at work, without which I would not have
been able to cope because I leave home by 5.30am and school resumes 8.am, his
sister is in the boarding school and my husband works on the rig (2 weeks on and
off at intervals), therefore, without this support, it would have been the
little boy and myself at home. Staff
bus – helps to transport me to and from work every day (Monday to
Friday) amidst terrible traffic - 4hrs per trip. This is highly beneficial because I always
have some minutes nap on the way going and do some of my assignments on the way
back, therefore, without this support I would have to join public transport
which will definitely make the journey cumbersome and uneventful. Computer – helps me to organize my
thought and submit my daily job on time.
This is beneficial to me because it helps to complete my job timely with
less stress because I always have a whole number of deadline jobs to attend to
on daily basis while attending to customers on phone and e-mail, some even come
personally to get information. Without this support I would have stayed longer
on jobs and this would have affected my daily output. Food storage – freezer helps to keep
the food ready to eat. This is
beneficial because I always prepare food for the week and keep, when I get back
from work I bring the preferred food out of the freezer and warm. Without this I would have to go to market on
daily basis and cook daily after going through the daily terrible traffic. Power generating plant – helps to
keep the freezer working with the incessant absence of national electricity.
The benefit of this is that it produces power for the freezer because we seldom
have electricity in this part of Nigeria.
Without this support, it would have been the same as the food
storage. Daily devotional – helps
to keep me balanced through studying and meditating on the word of God. This is beneficial to me as it invigorates my
spiritual life which keeps me sound and balanced, without which I would have
been overwhelmed by the happenings all around.
On-line studying – study on early childhood helps to keep me
more readily alert on my environment and keeps me abreast of current happenings
within families. This is beneficial to me as I am now able to give a more
assured professional advice to the suffering families as a result of
inadequacies in some areas of upbringing.
If any or all of these are gone, definitely the benefit(s) would be gone
too and saddle me with the challenge(s) therein. I honestly would not want to think of a life
without any or all of these supports!
