Academic Stress

How many times have you stressed yourself out over academic pressure. Over blogs, papers, grades, exams, mid terms, finals or even financial aid. Academic pressure can take a toll on our minds and bodies.

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Stress is a normal physical response to events that make you feel threatened, or upset your balance in some way. Stress response is an automatic process known as flight, fight or freeze. It's important for everyone to learn to recognize when our stress levels are out of control. Academic pressure is one of the main reasons students drop out of school.  

Meditation is a great solution to relieve mental stress. Studies show it helps clear the mind, discipline and focus. During meditation our minds stop processing information as actively as they normally would.

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Exercise is also a great form of stress relief on our bodies. Being active can boost your feel good endorphin's and distract you. It also helps improve mood, sleep, depression, and anxiety.

There are many other ways to reduce stress like reading, watching TV, playing sports, getting a massage are all effective ways to keep from over stressing.     

Career Choice

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I returned back to school after 12 years because a Medical Assistant wage was no longer cutting it. I graduated in 2000 and married my high school sweetheart. The plan was to take a semester off school and enjoy married life, Plan changed soon as I found out I was pregnant 4 months later. I chose a fast track CMA career because I knew my husbands wage plus a minimum wage job was not going to be enough to survive on. It worked out, I ended up loving my career choice and it was enough to live nicely, until my marriage ended eleven years later. I moved back in with my parents worked for a while but the wage wasn't enough to make it on my own with my two boys. I decided school was my best option especially since I had my parents full support.

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Naturally I chose to go for the nursing program since I enjoyed Medical Assisting very much. i like to fix things and fix people. Caring for others is an emotionally fulfilling and rewarding career. I worked many different specialties in the eleven years of my health care profession. As a registered nurse I'll have a better more rewarding career, and a better paying job. I haven't been accepted in the program yet, I will be applying in the fall. Meanwhile I've taken all prerequisites and I'm currently working on classes for a BSN. 

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Parenting

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I was raised in a home where the consequence to any kind of misbehavior was going to result in painful agony to my backside. I'm not in any way saying i have bad parents or that i was abused in any way. That's just how my parents were raised and that's how they raised my brothers and I. They were loving parents and they gave us everything we wanted, but they were very strict and there wasn't much leeway for mess ups.

I guess they thought they had to instill fear in us so that we would behave. I believe differently, I believe communication and positive role modeling is key to raising an upstanding adult. Times are different and kids have many more right than when we were growing up. Corporal punishment isn't an option anymore, especially in public. 

My parenting is very much different than the way my parents raised us for several reasons the biggest difference is that I'm a single parent and my boys father is not around to help with punishment. When my kids were younger, I maybe spanked them a hand full of times. I preferred talking to them about what they did wrong and my disciplinary actions consisted of time outs, then as they grew older i started to take things they really enjoyed away for a day or two. My boys are now 11 and 13 yrs old, pre-teen and teenager. There's a big difference in the way I talk to them now and how i talked to them when they were 6 and 8. They are both good kids but they have their mess ups and now even if I wanted to I really don't have the option of spanking since they are big and it doesn't hurt them anymore. My oldest is 5 inches taller and out weighs me by 35 lbs, my youngest just a tad bit smaller in stature than me. Parenting is a hard job, at-least for me it is, and its nerve wrecking knowing that the outcome of my decisions on how i raise my boys affects so many people. I hope and pray my best is good enough.

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