Personal Narrative: Dealing With Al Kohlberg's Moral Development Theory

My life has been a difficult one. I would never sugar coat it. Throughout life, I have faced many hardships. But these hardships have shaped me into the person I am today. I do not regret anything that has happened. With each new experience and phase in my life, it has taught me a lesson. A lesson that has given me the knowledge that I know now and want to share with my work with Social Work. I am a single African American female. Living in Greensboro, North Carolina while I attend North Carolina A&T State University. I grew up with predominately my grandmother. She was my sole guardian. She raised me as her own and I owe her everything. She was teaching me everything I knew without me even knowing it. My family also had a big impact on my life after my mother died. They all helped my grandmother in raising me. I never went without or missed any experience because they ensure that I was living as much as a normal life as possible. My church has a very big place in my life because of all they have done. The saying it takes a village to raise a child is so true. An entire village has helped raised me into the female I am today. Psychologically, I have been recently diagnosed with Major Depression and Panic Disorder. Dealing with
That is because my morals and my values are very important to me. I believe that growing up I was going through the Preconventional Level. I was always the shy and quiet girl who was looking for the right moral decisions, but were based on the adults that surrounded me. I was always looking for what adults in my life saw as right and wrong. I was doing things that they thought was right because I did not know any better. The positive reaction was what I was looking for was them to reward me, instead of a negative punishment. When I was little I was always scared of being punished. Especially after my mother died, I wanted to be good in everyone’s