How my childhood shaped me into a well developed individual
Education:
Wetmore ES (K-4th)
Redland ES (4th-5th)
Driscoll MS (6th-8th)
Macarthur HS (9th-11th)
Academy of Creative Education (11th-12th)
Childhood:
I’ve had a rather pleasant childhood, though I did realized that I didn’t really have any self esteem for my younger years as I grow up I take pride in at least some of my accomplishments so I’ve come to expect more from myself than someone who doesn’t seem totally useless. From the very beginning I loved school I felt proficient at something like I’ve been missing out on the good parts of life rather than the negatives. Everything was easy all until 4th grade. THe learning curve have gotten steeper than I expected like I took for granted the head start I seem to have and I
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In my early years, I’ve felt like I could've been anything, become a self made man, and to this day I’m still baffled how i could still have any ambition after everything. But once I stopped doing stuff and let the depression, anxiety, bipolar all take over. Instead of being in Parkour I stopped for some lazy reason, and stopped getting out cause I find it a waste since I got out of the habit of doing it. I’ve basically cut off my family and resorted to my room for most of the day so I didn’t have to let the anxiety cause anything that will send me spirialing. So it was my home, for 2 years. Didn’t exercise or see friends almost ever, ate, slept and play on my phone …show more content…
I went exploring a lot in the neighborhood I was always curious and loved playing outside
1.1 – Explain the factors that need to be taken into account when assessing development
In sixth grade, a teacher recognized me as a student who had the potential for academic excellence and I would have the opportunity to enroll in Academically and Intellectually Gifted classes. This felt exciting to me because I wanted to learn and experience everything I could. Unfortunately, the AIG program at my middle school ended quite abruptly after being told this. I continued through middle school feeling unchallenged and uninspired. However, I was able to excel and maintain an “A” average and participate in community services both at the school and Thrift Shop throughout my middle school career. In eighth grade, when I got my registration form for classes at Northwood and saw the abundance of subjects with differing levels of rigor I was ecstatic to start high school. I felt this could be the challenge I desired.
He underwent major back surgery which with a miracle it was a huge success and got him back on his feet. After a long recovery process from the surgery and still battling this illness we finally found out what was wrong. He is one of four people in the world to have a illness called perm disease. The best feeling in the world was when they came out and told me they have found the problem and that it was treatable. After sending his blood work all the way to London UK, they found it. It was a miracle. To look at him then I was bracing myself to say goodbye. Leaving him in the hopsital in a different city every night was tougher than imaginable. But, looking at him today it's like nothing happened he's back to normal. Through this process I talked to many doctors, nurses, family and friends.
My early education has been shaped by a very difficult challenge, but also many positive circumstances have formed my way of learning. I was home schooled throughout my grade school years, but due to financial and family circumstances throughout that period; I was lacking in my education. Throughout, my school years I always felt dumb, and that I could not connect with all my friends who went to “normal” school. Also, I feared how my future would turn out. “Would I be able to go to college? Could I get a decent job? What would happen to me?” This trial of education has been one of the most formative events
My early education shaped my motivations and philosophy in both negative and positive ways. At a young age, I became motivated to read and learn as much as possible. I regularly outperformed all of my peers in school and became focused on showing everyone that I was superior to them. Consequently, I continued to perform better and became convinced that I was smarter than my classmates and friends. Despite being given chances to excel in elementary school; in fifth, sixth, and seventh grade I was not sufficiently challenged and was disappointed that my time in school felt wasted. This was particularly frustrating because I had contemplated skipping sixth grade, but was discouraged to do so. Halfway through seventh grade I had the opportunity to challenge myself again. This time it did not influence my motivation or work habits; instead, I learned self-humility and had my personal philosophy reshaped.
How Life Built Me I like to think that people are like cars and that they are shaped and designed by the maker like how people are shaped and designed by the events that occur during their life. For me at least I feel like the major events that played out in my life shaped me to become the person I am now even when I thought nothing good could come of them. My life started out like a normal southern raised boy in the south, go to church on Sunday, try to work hard at school, and go play with my neighborhood friends. To me I thought I had a great life and enjoyed every minute of being young and not having many responsibilities.
In New York, I attended pre kindergarten, kindergarten, and first grade. In 1986 my family moved to Long Beach, California, where I completed grades 2 through 11. I attended Lakewood High School and Huntington Beach Alternative School. I studied for my G.E.D test and received my General Education Diploma in 1997. I attended vocational school at Bryman College majoring in Allied Health, earning a diploma in Medical Assistance along with 24 college credits.
In the Buckingham chapter, we see how constructed childhood truly is. His arguments show that adults are defining what it means to be a child through mass media such as television, internet, books, and movies. These mediums create the idea of what childhood should be, reinforcing this adult ideology due to the fact that we rely on these as sources of knowledge. We can see through his string of evidence how “childhood”, or the idea of childhood that we have, are socially and culturally constructed. This allows us the opportunity to see how perhaps our own ideas of childhood have been shaped by the books, movies, and shows we watched.
The three things that have made the biggest impact on and have influenced my life that shaped me into the person I am today are family background, experiences from my school year, and religious beliefs. Our culture provides a lens through which we view the world and interpret our everyday experiences. In order to know who I am today, I must look at who you’ve been. Many educators around the country are interested in developing a multicultural approach in their teaching. They find themselves in classrooms with 25 children of varying racial and cultural backgrounds, and are looking for ways to connect what they do in the classroom to the cultures represented by their students. Before we can begin to understand others, however, we need to understand ourselves and what we bring to our interactions with others.
When growing up, the only thing that goes through our minds as kids are playing and hoping we didn’t have any homework that day. We put the words, “adult” and “growing up” in the future and only think about the “now” until it’s too late. When it was too late for me, I had to get my first job. At the time, I was a kid that only saw the money and never thought once about the other disciplines and work ethics needed to be successful at working. Having a job, while simple in my head at the time, helped shape me to become the person I am today, that made “growing up”, a little easier.
Throughout my childhood, my mother made an effort to cultivate my interests and hobbies. Despite being impoverished, particularly after her divorce when I was five, she sought out opportunities to camp, travel, and educate me. She read me stories before bed every night, and strived to maximize the time we spent together. This young exposure to expedition, adventure, and quality family time promoted within me my most positive, deeply rooted characteristics. I am curious and independent; I need to feel accomplished, and I am uncomfortable when I feel holistically stagnant. Unfortunately, many of these qualities became suppressed after a few major life incidents, and I had to fight internally to regain them. Although I had a warm, vivacious, and independent mother, my biological father Tom was an alcoholic, and his manipulative and childish behavior had a long-term impact on my self esteem. I am going to delve into many of his qualities, and how they degenerated my mental health.
Remember when we were young and all we could think of was growing up and getting to do ‘grownup’ things? We spent our whole childhood thinking of what we would do when we finally ‘grew up’, and here we are, almost completely grown up and we still haven’t made up our mind of what it is we will do when we grow up. We’ve painted this pretty little picture in our head of what it’ll be like when we eventually do grow up, and when it finally comes for the picture to be taken off the wall and put into action, it’s not nearly as fun as creating the painting.
This explains the beginning of my life all the way to the end of my life. My life from the beginning was very fun as I grew up living with my mom’s friend and my friend. But there were a lot of fights and I was very hyper back then. I have ADHD so back then when I was little; I was very hyper and wouldn't stop moving around the place. I always was annoying back then and never seemed to get my homework done at school.
“To be successful you need to face your hardest opponent… yourself.” –Dillon Boucher. In order to face ourselves, we must know who we are and why we do certain things. Psychology allows us to do this. It is the study of people. This science allows us to look into who we are and what we are. By understanding what and how everything you do can help you make improvements. This allows the body and mind to work together, so it can give you the knowledge to help make better decisions and avoid stressful situations. It can help you achieve goals and you live comfortably with others. As I move on in life and get to the point of independence, it is important for me to understand why I do the things I do, so I can make important changes to adapt to
My childhood wasn’t always perfect. When I was younger I lived up north with my biological father, mother, and siblings. We looked like a perfect american family. Seemed nice and perfect out in public. But no one really knew how my father was. Let's just say I didn't have the perfect father. All people saw was the good part of him. The part my mom fell in love with. My mother is a kind lady. Caring and always taking care of others. I would say maybe she was sometimes a little too nice when she was younger always forgiving people. She would wake up every morning make breakfast and even lay my father's clothes out for him before work. So all he would have to do is wake up and go on about his life.