I was introduced to nurturing others at a very young age. I am the eldest child of my family, and have six siblings. Each day I was responsible for assisting them in many tasks. For example, one of the tasks that I regularly helped my siblings with was their homework. When I was ten years old, my brother, who was in kindergarten at the time, brought home his guided reading book and read it to me every night. I felt that I was quite responsible at this age and with the trust of my parents, I started babysitting the whole clan. It wasn’t long after I began babysitting my siblings before my Uncle Mike and Aunt Jenny would ask me to spend entire weekends watching my four cousins. While watching my young cousins after I entered high school, I would
