Essay B Middle School is a time in adolescent’s lives where their physical, and equally important social development, is at a delicate and crucial point. For those who inherit socially favorable genes, certain aspects of life become easy, and those individuals can go through life rather nonchalantly. However, the life of a pre-teenager and a young teenager is difficult when you’re only as tall as other kid’s sternums and weigh less than the book stuffed backpack you lug around all day. I always pictured self esteem as the amount of actual steam in a tea pot. The more steam one had the better they would feel. Sadly, my teapot was often running low. I wanted to be confident and not care what others thought about me, but it felt like the …show more content…
I couldn’t continue to be defined by my size and made to feel lesser because of it. I was tired of the hurtful teasing and stinging comments. I wanted to change. However, simply changing the way you feel about something is much easier said than done. The first thing I did was learn to accept myself for who I was by embracing my size and my dorkiness. After that, I began to learn how to turn insults around into jokes that would make people laugh. I would poke fun at myself and if someone said something rude, I would laugh and just go on with my day. I came to realize if someone thinks that their insult hurts you they will keep going and going, but if it doesn’t seem to affect you, they will just leave it alone. By the summer after 9th grade I had saved up enough money for a gym membership. I started going and I went every single day that summer. In addition, that summer nature kicked in and I shot up practically doubling my height. When marching band season rolled around in August, I showed up completely changed. I’d left school a scrawny little kid and went back a stout 6 foot young adult with some muscle for the first time in my life. I remember several people mentioning it, but I pretended not to know what they were talking about. Internally, I was beaming with unadulterated
Self esteem is the component of a person's personality that dictates how they view themselves. People with healthy self-esteem
Usually, people are very judgmental with themselves, comparing themselves with others and making decisions about themselves based on the comparisons that they have made. People constantly estimate or appraise themselves. Therefore it could be that self-esteem refers to the positive or negative evaluation of ourselves.
The written word is a robust contrivance that has been used for thousands of years to endow knowledge and emotion upon its audiences. Academic writing is one of the many different types of writing. Academic writing conveys different formalities of writing when compared to a basicity that is Personal writing. Academic writing needs a more organized, formal structure whilst using attire such as in-text citations and references to backup information presented within the script. Academic writing also deals with basal theories and causes ascendant processes and practices in ones everyday life, as well as exploring alternative substitutes for these events according too author Jagg Xaxx. The following is a reflection on my own academic essay
Self esteem is how an individual evaluates their worth as a person. It is not a person’s talents or abilities or how they are seen by others It is seen as the feeling of not being good enough. However, that does not mean people with high self esteem view themselves as
A person with a strong sense of self esteem will have a more positive outlook on life and will be strong enough to handle difficult situations through life.
Low self-esteem has been an issues with many people since before the 1970’s. This issue has gradually picked up since the 70’s and has progressed 37% in the last 200
I spent the day in the classrooms observing students in general education and SPED classes.
Do you think that middle school is harder than elementary school? In elementary school, students generally have one teacher that teaches most if not all subjects. In middle school you must switch classes to different teachers. Middle school is definitely harder because you have only three minutes to switch classes.
Self-esteem is always a very challenging capacity to keep in balance because you want to be confident, but you also have to remember to remain humble. Personally, my self-esteem is one of my biggest struggles. I constantly have to remind myself that “it’s really important to love yourself first” because “if you don’t love yourself first, then how can you love anyone else?” (Shankman et al 2015). While I don’t mind being the first person to take action or address an issue, there is always a struggle of second guessing myself. I try to continuously regulate myself, but sometimes I am my worst judge and it can lower my own self esteem. I learned that self-esteem isn’t something that you can achieve and then walk away from. You have to continuously monitor and regulate it. Balancing a healthy self-esteem is important in a leadership role because you want to be confident in your actions because it will make you seem more capable as a person, but you don’t want to become arrogant and make mistakes because of your pride. For example, as an RA you need to be confident because your residents will be coming to you for advice and help in certain circumstances. Being confident with your answers not only helps to reassure them, but it makes them more apt to listen to what you are saying. If you are too confident, however, it will have the complete opposite effect and will cause the
Over the years, I've learned that being big was a horrible but rewarding experience. As a kid, I would always have to adapt the way I played with other kids Knowing I could possibly hurt them or I couldn't keep up with them. Being physically big, made me feel bad about myself and started to resent skinnier kids because I knew I could never be like them. As I grew older, I realized I shouldn't be sad about my own life. Those kids I resented could be going through things worse in life than I could ever imagine. I realized that I shouldn't be depressed just because i’m overweight because it helped me with my morals. My size impacted my parents in a way that they both knew when it was enough that they wouldn't bother to continue an argument or
My fall semester at Middle College has been very rocky; from times of laughter, and fun, to times of stress and anxiety. I learned that it isn’t easy to adapt to a new environment. This semester has also made me realize that you can really overcome anything if you put your mind to it. Nothing is impossible, even the word itself says so, ‘im-possible.’
Young adolescents are experiencing a very critical time in their lives by attempting to discover themselves and determine who they want to be. Middle school children are extremely diverse, physically, emotionally, and mentally due to the changes they experience during the transescence period. Within the middle school years, an interest in education is either sparked or neglected, and as a future educator it is my responsibility to encourage a love of learning through the classes of mathematics and social studies.
To put it another way, food had accelerated my aging process, at least mentally, and fast forwarded me years ahead of where I should’ve been in terms of conscientiousness of my size. As a result, by my fourth grade school year I began feeling acutely aware and ashamed of my size in relation to the other students in my class. In addition, I clearly dwarfed the next largest student in my class by well over forty pounds and four or five inches. Mix my abnormal size with an early puberty and you have a stressed out fourth grader with too many internal conflicts to count. Luckily, none of the other kids really teased me about size until I entered the seventh grade. I was still the giant of the class in both height and weight, but the weight issue had grown substantially worse. Specifically, the years between fourth and seventh grade had been lost to an unbridled consumption of food to cope with the massive changes occurring in and around me. Those years were packed with unhealthy garbage food that would help me rise to over two hundred pounds by the seventh grade. As a result, I was now considered obese for being only five feet seven inches tall and I did not blend in well with the rest of the crowd. Consequently, there were a lot of hushed conversations about me and it made me so uncomfortable that I
The small classroom was quiet and bleak, the only sound being heard was the shuffling of papers and footsteps down the hallway. Every student had been working on their projects, grinning proudly to the teacher as the young adult complimented their work. Although, all but one girl sat, coloring quietly and cutting out scraps of construction paper. This girl in particular had been staring out the window at the muddy landscape surrounding the structure of their humble school. As she glanced around the room, the old and creaky desks soon grew into magnificent trees, with elegant vines and branches that intertwined with one another. She smiled at the image of them, the small birds tweeting softly, singing their melodies to each other. The bright
Self-esteem is associated with depression, anxiety, motivation and general satisfaction with one’s life (Rosenberg, 1986).