Quinten Antoine Price Jr., also known as AJ, is the 6 month old son of Angelique Stokes and Quinten Price. He was born April 23rd, 2015 after 12 hours of labor at Phoebe Hospital. After dating for 2 and a half years and having been in a relationship for another 2 years, Quentin and Angelique knew they wanted to start a family together one day but never imagined that it would happen this soon. While conducting the interview at Angelique’s home, I had the chance to watch AJ crawl around, pull himself up beside the couch where I sat and drool on my new parent interview instructions. I enjoyed interviewing Angelique not only because she was excited to tell me about her bundle of joy but because she is my Eastern Star sister and I had the chance to watch her belly grow as she transcended into motherhood.
Angelique expressed to me that parenthood has treated her good thus far. It has been exciting and there is always something new to experience every day. AJ surprises her with the many things he does from standing up in his crib and snatching things of the wall to figuring how a toy works. She loves the way he looks at her, knowing that she is his mother and she is the woman who is going to take care of him. She also loves to hear him laugh and giggle as they play together. Emotionally, she was nervous about becoming a parent because she did not want to fail as a young mother. She does not want anything to happen to AJ from lack of knowledge about how to raise a child from her
Patrick A. Lespinasse is the Director, State Government Affairs at Verizon. He is responsible for strategic advocacy on a broad range of public policy, legislative and regulatory issues that impact corporations on the local, municipal and state levels. Lespiansse is a lawyer, adjust professor at St. John's University, and former staffer to Assemblyman Thomas
After reading Chapter 3 of “High Price” by Dr. Carl Hart, I learned he lived with his mother and father until the as halfway thru the second grade. Then got a divorce and he stayed with his father for about two week, but once his father realized that he was unable to take care, he then went to live with his Big Mama. His great grandmother was a Bahamian woman. She came to the United States when she was a young adult. His big mama was a women who believed and stressed that going school and being self sufficient was important. She believed that a black men in this society had no chance if they weren’t educated. Dr. Carl Hart’s family based their family morals off of Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. DuBois, based on the beliefs of the his grandmother and great grandmother. His great grandmother followed role of W. E. B. DuBois, because she believed that education was important and this was a way for African Americans can advance. Although his great grandmother believed that education was important, she did not believe that it would not help someone of his race in a world where racism played a big part of being successful. Carl’s father would promise to pick him up on the weekends and would never show or even showed up drunk. Although his father was an alcoholic, Carl didn’t mind it he just wanted to be around him. Being the his great grandmother loved him dearly, his great grandmother loved him and always had his back. When Carl’s father didn’t play a the role of being a
Marienelle Fernandez is a mom of 3 amazing girls, Alicia, Bella, and Gia. She’s a registered nurse with 18 years of experience, ranging from long-term care to information technology, and quality/patient safety/risk management. She’s a graduate of 2 Master’s Degrees: Nursing with an emphasis in Nursing Informatics and Healthcare Administration and Management with a specialization in organizational leadership and changed management. She’s a Ph.D.Mind-Body Medicine student with certification in Wellness Coaching, and founder of RNMomEntrepreneur - Health and Happiness Lifestyle Blog. As the only child of strong, Catholic, Filipino immigrant parents, she grew up in an environment with expectations to be silent, obedient, and passive.
Back in March AJ shared the news of her pregnancy via Instagram. She was so excited to be having another child she had their happiness with family, friends and fans alike. AJ and Nathan wanted to have another child and it took a bit of time but was blessed once again. The couple has been married for the past fourteen years. In AJ’s post on Instagram she said; “Miracles do happen and don’t believe anyone who tells you otherwise.” Nathan also posted a follow up piece revealing the baby’s gender saying; “Since [A.J.] just announced we are expecting a new addition to the clan, I guess it’s my responsibility to inform everyone it’s a boy!”
I observed Harper, a 23 month old little girl that is full of energy. Also participating in the interaction with Harper was her mother and five year old sister, Mya. Harper is very friendly and outgoing. She is very interested “reading books” and loves to be read to. She enjoys helping her mother clean and do simple tasks. She seems to be very confident with and without her mother in her sight. Harper’s father is not actively involved in her life because he lives in another state.
Kay Wilkonson ends up taking him in and being a great mom to him, she is supportive of what he finds interesting and important, but at the same time has the discipline all kids need to succeed. Ultimately, we may not always have our mother to be our mom, but having someone who is a “mom” in our lives pushes us to become the successful and talented people that
Her family are living together with her grandparents. She told me that she feels closest to her mother and grandparents on her mother’s side who are helping to raise her. Her grandma always took care of her while his mother was at work, and her grandpa used to pick up every day. She feels now that she is growing up, her mother is always there whenever she needs her help. She told me that her mother is also her best friend, and she is comfortable to ask and discuss about general issues going on in her life as well as school’s problems. She believes that her mother always gives her good advices. Her mother also let her to choose her future career, so she told her mother that she wants to be a nurse. Based on the description of her family, permissive parenting style seemed to fit with her family because her mother is always there whenever she needs any helps from her, her mother also let Zalyn to make her own decision on choosing her
This picture Alvin Richard is a self- taugh classical-modern painter, with the hand & the eye of an old master. His exceptional “Realist” paintings are the product of natural artistic talent and heartfelt passio Livinlightg in New Brunwick, Canada,Richard is working full-time as a registered nurse and moonlighting as an artist. He has been painting with acrylics for more than 20 years. Richard’s work includes still life, street scenes and figure studies.
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Rather than allow this time to negatively affect her emotions, she focused on the positive aspect that she was able to focus most of her attention during these months to her daughter, Reba. She says that a “special time when anticipating her birth was hearing Reba talk about and show how she was very excited about getting a new baby sister” (Veronica Meserve, personal communication, September 13, 2015). This excitement shown by Reba relieved fears that she could have been uninviting to a new family member which would have caused much more work for the parental alliance between Chris and Veronica. Gerber explains that a parental alliance is the “cooperation between a mother and a father based on their mutual commitment to their children” (Berger, 2011, p. 116). Because Reba supported the new addition, the parental alliance was able to focus their efforts on the infant which was about to be introduced to the
On the other hand, she likes to have mommy and daughter time. What made me happy is that she said we are more supported and approved of her than other parents are towards their kids. Vanessa Junior briefly mentioned that we are more strict than other parents. We did not take it as a complaint because we want what is best for Vanesa Junior.
Here, a 16-month year old girl, Jessica, attends the program with her parents. The parents bring her to the sessions due to underdeveloped motor skills and her decrease in physical activity. They also sense that she is anxious. Through the program, Tortora picks up on the difference in the relationship the girl has with her mom and dad. The primary focus though is with her mom.
She has not seen her boyfriend since the last time he was released from jail which was a few months ago. Besides being a single mother she faces many challenges for not being 18 years old. Yajaira continues to go to school and had a part-time job she had to leave behind. As an underaged mother, she was notgiven many hours to work that she would help support her child. Aside from being deprived from working more hours, she is also deprived from certain day care programs. Some students who are single parents qualify for free or little cost day care services while they attend school but because she has not yet turned 18 years old, she does not have the opportunity to access these services. Even though she constantly faces all these challenges as a single mother, Yajaira says “There is nothing else I can do than just being the best mom for Leo. Everything else will work its way out eventually but I’m glad to have family that help support me with
Celeste mentions how she is learning to function on less sleep and is getting used to having no free time. I think their hearts are in the right place, and there is no doubt in my mind that they will be good parents, but like a lot of new parents in today’s society, they are stuck finding time to raise a kid while also working full time jobs. I think the next few years will be difficult but crucial for them as parents. Some things will get easier for them, while others will get more difficult. For example, for Celeste it is easier to figure out what’s wrong with AJ. She said a year ago if he was crying I would worry and have to guess why he’s crying. Now I know usually what’s making him cry and if I don’t he can usually at least tell
Since the age of fifteen, I have been dating my boyfriend, Damon, whose family has accepted me as their own. Last year, Damon’s step-brother Elijah had a wonderful little girl named Korra. She is now 11 months old and beginning to exhibit signs of development that we have been exploring in our class work. Since I am close with Damon’s family, I have been able to see at least once a week and watch her develop and learn new things, allowing me to compare her to one of our recent chapters, which was development.