Adjourning

I have been studying with Walden for over four years, and it was quite sad to say good-bye to every group. I have study with several groups more than once, and it was even harder to leave them. Since I have been in the Master’s program it is even harder to say good-bye to my colleagues, because they provided me with so much information. The information I received from them on the discussion board and in responding to various postings will help me to accomplish my goals in the early childhood field. I have experience real communication from learning in a group and showing teamwork as well as the ability to trust and understand other people differences. There was much personal information brought out in this program that should be remained between us colleagues. The trust we had in each other while sharing many stories in our lessons made us stronger, and this information will be carried on into our profession. I hope that you all have enjoyed me in your group as much as I have enjoyed having you all in my group. I will like to thank each of you all and maybe we will be studying together again in the near future. Thank you all and good luck!!

Disagreement

In my personal life, I just reason broke of a relationship with my friend because of a disagreement. When I meet him, he had two little cute house puppies. I like dogs because I have one of my own, but I do not like them to stay in the house. After dating for a few months, my friend decided to take a better paying job at an electrical plant in Mississippi. He knew from communicating with me that I did not like house pets, but he asked if I would take care of the puppies and he would come to my house on Sunday which was his only off day. I thought about it for a while and decided to tell him I would keep the puppies only if he provides a cage for resting in the day and sleeping at night. I also told him that since I would be the one taking care of them, don’t he interfere with my rules as long as I did not mistreat them. He agreed that the puppies stay on the outside and come in throughout the day for rest and to sleep at night.

About four months later, my rules were no longer his concern, he start bringing the puppies back into the house. When I would leave to go out to run an area, he and both puppies would be lying in bed sleep when I arrived. The best thing for me to do at the time was to think before acting, because I was mad enough to jump rope. My feelings of thinking, being able to identify and express internal feeling states in a way that does not imply judgment, criticism, or blame/punishment is what I was trying to avoid in this relationship (The Center for Nonviolent Communication, 2013). We communicated once more about the rules that were put in place for the puppies that did not stand.

The third time, I observed him as he fell asleep with the puppies in his arms, I knew right then that all three of them has to go, because I did not want to get into no violence confutation about dogs. I believe in nonviolent communication, which is being able to carefully observe what is happening in my environment, and to specify behaviors and conditions that are affecting me (The Center for Nonviolent Communication, 2013). We are no longer together, he took the puppies to his ex-girlfriend and while in her care Morocco the boy puppy got hit by a car and died.

Reference

The Center for Nonviolent Communication. (n.d.). The center for nonviolent communication Retrieved from http://www.cnvc.org/