Adult Development. Beautiful Past, Bright Future
Beautiful Past
Beautiful Past, Bright Future
My understanding of who I am. Especially now, having a greater knowledge base from this book, “Adult Development and Life Assessment”, the theories that are talked about has opened my eyes to the realization of my past, present, and future. Using the theories, I learned from this class, and reflect a portion of my life experiences, as well as examining some of these experiences. Will look into my future goals I want to achieve.
Growing up on a dead end street in a lower middle class neighborhood of East Los Angeles, my parents knew few people in the neighborhood so all the family kids hung out together, and played. That was such a great time in my life, not a care in the world. My parents made sure they knew where I was at all times. When I would want to play outside, I would play in are fenced front yard. Having had plenty of toys to play with, all the neighborhood kids would come to play at my house. I remember always having the ability to start a project and follow through to its completion from setting up my hot wheels racetrack or making my bed.
When the group kids came over to play, the decision were made by me on how to play, what type of games to do, choosing whom I wanted on my team. We were always successful game endings. My self-esteem was pretty high at this age; this reminds me of the reading in chapter 1 self-esteem is based on cognitive studies, as well as other areas of development.” Burhans and Dweck found that if a child’s self- esteem were high, the child would be motivated to try harder to achieve goals. By contrast, children with low self- esteem tend to believe failures are a reflection of who they are and that they cannot succeed even if they try harder.” (Burhans and Dweck, 1995).
Beautiful Past
My dad was in the military, and had a stern persona about him, it was either his way or no way. My mother would tell me to take out the trash. If the trash was not emptied my
Beautiful Past, Bright Future
My understanding of who I am. Especially now, having a greater knowledge base from this book, “Adult Development and Life Assessment”, the theories that are talked about has opened my eyes to the realization of my past, present, and future. Using the theories, I learned from this class, and reflect a portion of my life experiences, as well as examining some of these experiences. Will look into my future goals I want to achieve.
Growing up on a dead end street in a lower middle class neighborhood of East Los Angeles, my parents knew few people in the neighborhood so all the family kids hung out together, and played. That was such a great time in my life, not a care in the world. My parents made sure they knew where I was at all times. When I would want to play outside, I would play in are fenced front yard. Having had plenty of toys to play with, all the neighborhood kids would come to play at my house. I remember always having the ability to start a project and follow through to its completion from setting up my hot wheels racetrack or making my bed.
When the group kids came over to play, the decision were made by me on how to play, what type of games to do, choosing whom I wanted on my team. We were always successful game endings. My self-esteem was pretty high at this age; this reminds me of the reading in chapter 1 self-esteem is based on cognitive studies, as well as other areas of development.” Burhans and Dweck found that if a child’s self- esteem were high, the child would be motivated to try harder to achieve goals. By contrast, children with low self- esteem tend to believe failures are a reflection of who they are and that they cannot succeed even if they try harder.” (Burhans and Dweck, 1995).
Beautiful Past
My dad was in the military, and had a stern persona about him, it was either his way or no way. My mother would tell me to take out the trash. If the trash was not emptied my