Personal Essay: How Josefina Garcia Changed My Life

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Josefina Garcia
I am Josefina Garcia, one of my dream is have my own business. As a mother of three children one of my priotities is by the time that I'm working have peace of mind that they are in a safetly place and where they could improve their learning abilities. Today's society is seeing less of the traditional stay at home mom. Most of the parents work many hours a day, some of them work differents shift. For parent is very hard when they have to decided who are going to take their children or which program can be better for them. There are many differents programs and places that open their door them but it very important to find out if they meet that requiriments to provide the children the best emotional ,social and intellectuall

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