A. What was the year and month in which you asked someone for help? What was your approximate age?
When I was nineteen years old I asked for help. It was around July 2011.
B. What was the reason or reasons why you needed to ask somebody for help?
I asked for help because I had decided to go back to college and needed someone to babysit my children. My daughter was four years old at the time and my husband and I had decided to enroll her in preschool. In order for children to attend that preschool the parents have to be either working or attending school. At that time I did not have a job or attend school. It seemed impossible for me to even think about going back to school with two children.
C. Who was the person that you asked for help?
The person that I asked for help was my grandmother. She was the only person besides …show more content…
What were some of the feelings that you experienced about having to ask somebody for help?
Some of the feelings that I recall experiencing when asking for help were the feelings of shame. I was ashamed to ask my grandmother to take of my children because it made me feel like a bad mother. I felt like my family was going to see me like an incompetent mother because I was not devoting all my time to my children.
F. Did you experience any feelings of ambivalence about having to ask for help?
Coming from a Salvadorian family I had mixed feelings about asking my grandmother for help. In my family we have a saying that when you have children is for the parents to take care of their children and not ask your family to do it for you. I knew it was for a good cause and that my intentions were good, but I did not know how my family was going to react to me asking my grandmother to babysit. I was not a great student throughout my high school years, so I did not know if my family was going to take me seriously about saying that I wanted to attend college. I was going to be the first one in my family to attend college, so that also made me feel
When I was nineteen years old I asked for help. It was around July 2011.
B. What was the reason or reasons why you needed to ask somebody for help?
I asked for help because I had decided to go back to college and needed someone to babysit my children. My daughter was four years old at the time and my husband and I had decided to enroll her in preschool. In order for children to attend that preschool the parents have to be either working or attending school. At that time I did not have a job or attend school. It seemed impossible for me to even think about going back to school with two children.
C. Who was the person that you asked for help?
The person that I asked for help was my grandmother. She was the only person besides …show more content…
What were some of the feelings that you experienced about having to ask somebody for help?
Some of the feelings that I recall experiencing when asking for help were the feelings of shame. I was ashamed to ask my grandmother to take of my children because it made me feel like a bad mother. I felt like my family was going to see me like an incompetent mother because I was not devoting all my time to my children.
F. Did you experience any feelings of ambivalence about having to ask for help?
Coming from a Salvadorian family I had mixed feelings about asking my grandmother for help. In my family we have a saying that when you have children is for the parents to take care of their children and not ask your family to do it for you. I knew it was for a good cause and that my intentions were good, but I did not know how my family was going to react to me asking my grandmother to babysit. I was not a great student throughout my high school years, so I did not know if my family was going to take me seriously about saying that I wanted to attend college. I was going to be the first one in my family to attend college, so that also made me feel