{"id":2764,"date":"2011-11-03T23:45:38","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T23:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mojitomother.com\/?p=2764"},"modified":"2013-08-27T07:52:43","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T21:52:43","slug":"learning-to-ask-for-and-receive-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mojitomother.com\/2011\/11\/learning-to-ask-for-and-receive-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to Ask For and Receive Help"},"content":{"rendered":"
I’m not the type of person who likes to ask for help<\/strong>. I never have been.<\/p>\n When I was young, I used to love doing jigsaw puzzles<\/strong>. I would sit there for hours and days patiently putting the pieces of the puzzle together. I loved the satisfaction of knowing<\/strong> that I had achieved it all on my own.<\/p>\n It had to be on my own.<\/p>\n If someone came along and put one piece of that puzzle in, I would pack the whole thing up and start again. Even if I was only ten pieces away from finishing a thousand piece puzzle.<\/p>\n I see this characteristic in Kalyra, and while I know this has its very positive advantages<\/strong> it can also have very negative ones<\/strong>.<\/p>\n I try to advise her, “It’s okay to let people help you know. Sometimes they may be able to do the things you are struggling with.”<\/em><\/p>\n Really, it should be me listening to my own advice<\/strong>.<\/p>\n I’m terrible at asking for help, and I am terrible at accepting help. I still want to know that I can do it all myself.<\/strong><\/p>\n