Interview · North Dakota · Gerald Packineau · NDNAEU 7
Themes: Kinship & family, Education & learning, Healing & resilience, Culture & continuity, Children & young people
Learn About questions
What does it mean to have resiliency?
Who helps us learn to be resilient?
How can children learn to be resilient?
Learn From questions
Have I ever gone through something in my life that caused me to become resilient? What was it and how did I get through it?
What are examples of resiliency I have seen in my life?
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NDNAEU 7 "Learning From Family Members" with Gerald Packineau
Watch this interview on YouTubeMy mom taught me many things and my you know I learned and we have many mentors in their life my mother your grandma your uncle’s you know all those are mentoring you guys wouldn’t be sitting here if someone didn’t teach you where you want to be today so you know okay all right someone mentor me you know wasn’t this the teacher it was someone long you talk to someone long you relied on and trust and you said oh okay but what my mom said I was she said you know you’re gonna struggle them you’re gonna have a hard time just so what she said it Satan it was words but that’s what she meant don’t be crying and I thought about that because why because you’re just feeling sorry for yourself and we’re feeling sorry for yourself what are you gonna do cry for a moment but don’t be crying and don’t let him see you cry because why because you’re much better than that you’re stronger and that and that’s why we heard that word when he call it reads resilient resilience and if I wasn’t my dad didn’t teach me the discipline he thought he taught then that wouldn’t give me the strength and a courage the stannum and the resiliency to carry on there it is now my mom said the things that made me connect with that my grandpa Edwin said the same team to help me understand it traditionally my grandma in the long run taught me and when I was just a child these things you don’t do this you do that when she’s doing something’s be quiet be still see all of these plane of fact effect on everything and it’s a fact that it still didn’t steal into my spirit because now today as I say teach a child and training weight should go in the end he’ll come back and that’s what I believe happened they were taught those things must not didn’t understand at times but that spirit intent for him to teach me that and help me learn by my family helped me become Who I am today
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