Can you say, "Help Please?!"

Those are the two words I find myself repeating the majority of my days that I'm working with the toddler I watch (I'll call her A.) She's 16 months old and instead of asking for help will try and try and try and get frustrated in the midst of her trying and start whining/screaming/crying or any combination of those three. I'll walk over to her, help her and in the midst of is say, "A can you say Help Please...Help Please" She isn't fully talking yet so I don't expect it but I feel like if I keep feeding her the words eventually she'll get it. Its a different story when I'm around my 3 year old nephew. He will ask for help in heartbeat. "Meme, you please help me??" What a sweet innocent voice, how can I not.

I'm such a fool sometimes. Let me start there. Or maybe even a hypocrite. That wouldn't be far from the truth. I'm trying to teach A to ask for help and I encourage Jackson to ask for it, but when it comes to my own life I have such a difficult time asking for help. I'm at a new place in life where yesterday I had to completely humble myself and repeatedly tell the ones that I love so dearly that I didn't ask for help and now I'm so far down the path that all I can do is go back and try to slowly undo the damage I've done. I'm moving home with my mom to get myself out of this monetary hole I've dug. And while I've had attempts to help pay my debts I feel its best that I go back, have fewer bills and get myself back to a debt free state of life. Its hard to ask for help, but I'm finding comfort in the following verse,

At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 18:1-4

If I would only humble myself so easily as Jackson does, I'd be following this path. That's my goal right now, to get back to a humble state as a child where I'm not afraid to say, "Help me please" and allow someone to assist me. Its time to stop being prideful and attempting to do this on my own. I'm accepting my mothers help of allowing me to move in and teach me not only to make a budget but to live on one. I'm really excited and I know only glory to God lies in front of me. I'd be so lost without the cross and the saving grace that Jesus gives. I'm ever grateful for His sacrifice.