Personal Narrative: Initiative Vs. Guilt

At the age of 3, I started the Initiative vs Guilt stage. I liked to play with my cousins and other kids that lived nearby Sometimes my parents and I went to visit their brothers or sisters. Since they all had kids, I was able to play with them. When we went to a place to visit who I didn’t know and they had kids, I always asked for my parents’ permission to play with the kids. I felt that if I just go and play and didn’t had my parents’ permission, I was doing something wrong. My parents also always try to correct my wording, if I said something the wrong way. There was one time that they bought me flash cards so I could keep expanding my vocabulary. They also bought me a 5 piece puzzle so I could start solving problems. When I was 5, in the
Inferiority, Children develop a sense of competence and compare themselves with others. That’s exactly what happened to me, I started to develop a sense of competence, when I notice that some people had good grades at school, so I decided to do that too. When my some kids were good at something, I also wanted to be good at the same thing they were good at. Another thing I did was compare myself to other, when I was in Mexico I was poor. My clothes weren’t really too good and I did had that many good toys. My parents also didn’t had a lot of money. My aunt from my dad’s side had family in Mexico City. They came to visit her ones in a while. They were way wealthier than we were. Every time they came to our town they brought their nice cars and the kids always came with new clothes and nice shoes. I also always asked myself the question, “why can they afford all of the stuff and my parents can’t do that?” Sometimes they brag about their stuff, so we didn’t really get along too well. I never really hated them I just didn’t like when they did that. Another thing I did was play soccer after school. I was also very competitive when it came to sports. I always wanted to be the best at them, especially when my friends were better than me. When I was age 8 my parents brought me to the U.S. that’s when another challenge started, I wasn’t able to understand English, so when my parents took me to school I was completely lost. There was a girl who helped me by translating everything the teacher said. I knew that I needed to learn English, so I took the challenge to learn it. My parents bought me a dictionary and every time I had homework, I search every word and translated to try to make sense out the directions. Homework that took other kids 20 min to finish, probably took me 1 to 2 hours because I had to translate every sentence word for word to understand the directions. I keep practicing English at home and at school until I