Motivation Factor 4: Family
Family influence student motivation to learn through many different ways from simply care and love for their children, wanting to provide a better life for the children, being a good role model for the children, family support from spouses/parents, to parental influences.
Care for children
Care for children
…to this point of my life what motivates me to learn are several people. My kids are the ones that motivate me to learn because everything that I am doing is for them.—Rose, November 12, 2007, EDCI 4322-61
Be a role model for children
For those students who are parent(s) themselves, one big motivator for them to come back to school is their own children. They said that they wanted to be a good role model for their children and they wanted to make their children understand that education is important and valuable and learning is a life-long process.
After leaving tonight's class, I felt a bit overwhelmed…I ask myself, "Why are you doing this to yourself?" I have to remind myself that I am doing this to expand my knowledge about education and to continue to serve as a role model to my children, even though they are almost nineteen years old, that learning is a life long process and I hope they will take my example and continue their education well past getting their bachelors degree and perhaps their doctorate one day.-- Hannah, Jan 15, 2008, EDCI 6304
The reason I am here is because I am a mother of three children, I have spent most of my time raising them and taking care of them. Now they are all grown-ups and at school, and I said to myself, “Now it is my time. It is my time to get education.” I am here also because I want to set a good example for my children that you are never too old to learn.—Sally, Jan 16, 2008, EDCI 4322-01
Family support
My husband is another person that motivates me to learn because he is already a teacher and we went thru a lot together as a family before he became a teacher and he tells me not to give up on any of my classes. When I am having trouble to learn something or to understand, he even helps me.—Rose, November 12, 2007, EDCI 4322-61
Parental influence
It is very important to remember who our role models are (my father). What I mean is – sometimes we forget the things that we are striving to be. Remembering my role model helped me put some things into perspective. I had mentioned that I was going to delay my graduate studies, but last week when we were talking about role models I remembered what I wanted to be and whom I wanted to be like. I need my degree to do that.—Terry, December 6, 2007, EDCI 6304
We were a poor family and we were living in Matamoros, I remember that my mom was working since the morning until very late and she still was making Tamales to sell. My mom was my dad and mom at the same time, she raised us on the right track because so far my brothers and me get along and see each other. At this point of my life I am motivated to learn and I am paying my mom everything she has done for me. –Rose, October 31, 2007, EDCI 4322-61
…the person that has most influence my life has been my mother. My mother is a very strong but caring and loving person. She became a widow at the age of 28. It is not an easy job raising 5 young girls and being a single parent. She had to work extra hard and she did it without ever complaining. She was a very beautiful woman had the opportunity to remarry but she always felt that her daughters were the most important people in her life. I admire her for her unselfishness and the fact that she sacrificed a lot for us so that we could have the best possible upbringing even without our father.—Sally, October 31, 2007, EDCI 4322-61
Someone who has entirely impacted my life is my mother. She struggled so much to raise 3 beautiful girls on her own as an only daughter. My mother raised my 2 sisters and myself with no help from anyone. She had a very difficult childhood and a very bad divorce when she was young. My mom was able to complete high school but not college because she had to take care of my sisters. She was always such a strong woman and never let anyone bring her down. My sisters have already earned their masters degree and I am almost done with my bachelor’s degree. Everything I do I do for her because I want to make her super proud. She has impacted me so much and I want to be just as strong as her when I grow up and start a family.-- Sally, October 31, 2007, EDCI 4322-61
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