Social Relationships in Childhood

Most people I know have parents that usually meet their friends and if they do not like the way they act or look, they make their child not be their friend anymore. In this case it's different for me because I did not really have a huge issue. My parents always tell me to have certain types of friends and are a good influence because then I would be a good influence to others as well. My parents do not have the saying in my friend choice wise because it is not a normal social norm for me. I made the social construction of myself for picking friends who interest me and I get along with and I have complete control of it. Friends are the huge part of who I am today because they do help influence who I am and they are something I see very

I am now entering my final year of high school. Most things have changed. I have a completely different group of friends than I did at the start. I no longer even go to the lunchroom, and I hate parties. But some things never change.

6. Tell me about a way that people around you have influenced your thinking for the worse.

Beside, my shyness and I did not think it necessary to make new friends anyway. Transitioning from eight grade to high school was especially difficult for me because growing up, I had always gone to school with people who looked like me, sound like me, and dressed

Well in seventh grade was a little hectic for me but I got through it. Emily hadn't moved yet. I mostly hung out with Mikayla, Emily, and who ever stood by the library. I didn't really get the hang out high school til around ninth grade. I don't really even remember most of my classes before ninth grade. I remember sitting by the library in any weather unless the teachers made us go inside the building. Our whole group stood there, there was some I hadn't really talked to yet but I soon became friends with everyone over there. Most of the people I met when I first came to Junior high are now graduated. Ninth grade started Emily had moved. I still hung out with Mikayla though. Then my brother introduced me to this girl named Brianna we hung

At the age of four, I was living with my mother while she was a single parent. Back then, I was very cautious and an introverted child. I was afraid of many unknown things and I would never open myself up to anything new. This all changed once I met my stepfather, he showed me a new and more outgoing way to approach life.

Thinking back on it, I used the life skill of relationships much more than I thought at the time. As I said before, I made many ties when school started. Without these relationships I would most likely have been a different person entirely. I wonder sometimes, though, what my life would be like if I had kept in touch with my other friends all these years. This was both good and not so. I have less friends than I could have, but it makes things easier because I don’t have to over exert myself to keep from losing them.

I went through all of middle school having many friends; even though everyone was going through possibly the most awkward stage of life, there wasn’t a disconnect between all the cliques as there is now, in high school. Freshman year was basically the same as middle school, although everyone in the grade started dispersing into their own cliques, I had my main group of friends, and like every naïve freshman, I thought they were going to be there for my entire high school experience. I hadn’t reached the point where I realized that I was no longer in middle school yet, and then everything was completely different. Sophomore year came and a few people in my friend group left, maybe because they got a boyfriend or because they were on a different sports team and became closer to those players, but I hadn’t lost them entirely yet. But slowly I became distant from those friends. I noticed that by the end of

I had a lot of friends throughout my years of elementary school. Each year brought new people in my classes. I remember how I would go up to

Transitioning from the junior high to the high school will always be a defining moment of growth and learning for me. I remember middle school as if it were yesterday; I formed a tight relationship with the people in my class and we shared jokes, and supported each other no matter what. However, I knew 8th-grade year couldn't last forever and that, eventually my then best friend would be going to a different school and everyone who I saw and laughed with every day would be split apart. Some people may argue that I could still keep in touch with most of my close friends but I knew it would never be the same without us all together. Although it seems childish to me now, I remember the sickening feeling of everyone I love leaving me, and the dread

A few years later, my family moved to a college town, and my idea of society completely changed. At first, I stuck with what I knew, and I found a group of friends with a similar culture. I stayed with them through middle school, until I realized that being myself was more important than fitting in. As I ventured into high school, I stepped out of my comfort zone and

For as long as I can remember I’ve had the same group of friends, but coming into high school I met a lot of new people. I met some of my best friends here and my boyfriend.I’ve reached out to a lot of different people I didn’t really expect to be friends with. I learned that you really can’t judge a book by a cover and that probably sounds cliche, but some of the people I thought I’d never get along with became some of my really good friends.

My middle school years have been a little tough at a different school but I did make a few friends who saw things in me other then what was being talked about me amongst my class.

I have changed since the beginning of Junior High because of a few reasons. One reason is because I am more mature than I was coming into Junior High. I am much happier then I was. Also I am more focused then i used to be. Also I have took on some more responsibility.

Change is hard at first, messy in the middle, and gorgeous at the end; I had to learn it the hard way. I have never had many friends, actually, I only had one, Max, he is a blue fairy and two springs older than me. On my first day of school, I wanted to make friends but, it did not go so well. I was not really nice to the rest of the fairies in my classes, many of them tried to talk to me but, at the time I didn’t realize that I was being rude.