Essay

My essay is about my daughter,Hannah. She is the most important person in my life.  She has shown me how to be compassionate to other people and show patience when it is needed.  She has more strength than I can express with words.  She is brave and kind and caring.  She is nine and half. Everyday is filled with new feelings and smells and sights.  She is full of wonderment.  She is surprised when the dog barks for food, yet the dog does this everyday.  She never gets tired of running on the beach with dog, or swimming at the gym, where the chlorine is so strong it almost burns.  She is mad when its time to go to bed and happy when she wakes up.  She is nine and half.  She can do flips and hand springs across the room and will if you let her.  She is honest, even when she gets into trouble.  She is in the fourth grade and somehow on some days she knows everything.  But like I said she is nine and a half.  She has taught me that I need to choose my words carefully, because she has a near  perfect memory and can recite them at will.  And that I need to watch what I eat because Mom said to.  She is the best thing that has ever happened to me. Hannah is an only child who is doted for , hand and foot.  She has no wants that aren't filled and no needs unmet.  One of my main reasons for going back to school is to show my daughter the importance of an education.  My parents never had the time or energy to do anything above or beyond the bare minimum parenting.  I regret not going to school earlier, a regret that my daughter will never have to feel.  Hannah loves to go to school and she is enrolled in sports.  She has done many over the years.  I am proud to be in her life and to help her flourish as an active kid.  My parents were never there to take care of the little things, like make sure I did my homework or sign me up for sports or any extracurricular activities at all. So as soon as some became available I enrolled Hannah into Gymnastics.  Over the years she has been involved in Tee Ball and Soccer and Swim Team as well as Tae kwon do.  I know that I am over compensating for the lack of activities I had as  a child, but I want her to have all of the things I did not. So when I get home from working a twelve hour day Hannah is there with a smile and a kind word.  That is what keeps me going, going to work , going to school, to church and on.  She is my motivation. She will have all the opportunities  that I didn't have.  She will strive in school  and at life.  And if she doesn't, I will be there to help.