Just graduated in June from High School, with a newborn baby in my arms in November and on the verge of beginning my university in January, I wondered how I would do to educate and be educated. I had a wonderful Christmas and felt very happy while I prepared myself for a new year full of new challenges. At that age, a single word described everything that I needed and wanted to be: Responsible. I had heard and analyzed that word many times in my then short life: “You must be responsible”. To be responsible for me meant that one is “able” to “respond” to the challenges in life.
Of course I was trying my best, considering I was facing several challenges in my life then.. The academic challenges of college, the decision to remain without a partner in another country, living in another culture and speaking another language, plus holding a job that could help us survive and most of all the challenge I liked best and worried me the most: being a mommy.
All those challenges revolved around the most important responsibility of them all: my first priority would always be my little girl, then I would organize everything to reach my personal goals as long as they adjusted to that first priority. In college I selected all the courses on child development I could take and with my baby girl with 45 days from being born, I initiated my two first courses on becoming an effective mother. I was extremely happy, things were going well and I thanked God for the great privilege of educating myself to be a good mother. It was the best thing than I could have done.
