Identify the range of physical, social and emotional changes which occur for young people as they move into adult.…
Adulthood was something that I looked forward to. My childhood consisted of so many responsibilities, so for me adulthood came at a very young age. Due to a neglectful provider I had to find my own way. Most of my friends were so eager to grow up and get out of their parents house. I on the other hand was looking for a resting place with a nurturing parent. Unfortunately, I ended up in foster care at age seventeen. I became very emotional, but I didn’t give up. Adulthood came with many regrets for me, but this sorrow due to loss of childhood had to wait, because responsibilities were “knocking on the door”. After the hasten process of maturity, I begin to view life from the eyes of what I was, an adult. Grasping the concept made things much easier. I begin learning my way and creating my own path at the same time. So therefore, I graduated high school early got a job and attended a community college for my Nurse Aide 1 certification. Once I reached 18 I got an apartment. I then obtained a position in substance abuse working as a Certified Nursing Assistant. After two and a half years of work I decided to attend college for Nursing, and it is very tiring getting off a night shift job attending morning classes, but that is part of being an adult nothing comes easy it takes hard work and determination. However, people seem to not understand the meaning of being an adult. I feel like age is irrelevant when it comes to being an adult due to the simple fact an adolescent can have more sense than a person that’s middle aged. I myself have personally encountered this several times in my life. I will admit being an adult comes with a lot of responsibility, and you have to be responsible for your own actions and make decisions. Sometimes I would find myself getting upset, because I didn’t have parents there for me and I had to be an adult before it was time for me to be one, but now as I look back I am thankful where I stand in life as a young lady, and…
Transitions to adulthood are usually positive events, be they quinceneras, bat mitzvahs, or just getting older. Most people see transitioning into adulthood as something beautiful and amazing. Unfortunately, what people fail to understand is that not everyone’s life is exactly the same, and we all manage to fall into that assumption that it happens at the same time for everyone, and nobody ever comes out with any negative results.…
When we think of about rights of passage, most often thoughts that come to our mind are ceremonies like birth, puberty and marriage. Rites of passage are things we experience during our entire lifetime from the beginning to the end. These things, however, are different from initiations because an initiation is something where you have to prove yourself in order to be accepted, but a rite of passage is about a more personal acceptance into your own life. And in my opinion the passage into adulthood is the most important one in a person's life.…
As humans, we all grow into mature adults. As you know, adulthood is much different from your childhood. Grown women and men have different rituals and outlooks on their everyday life, that differ from a kid’s point of view. Along with being older, money, family, and love start becoming more important to you than ever. Responsibility and awareness are going to be more meaningful to you.…
The purpose of this paper is to explore my personal journey through adult development, while incorporating Erikson’s 8 stages of developmental theory. It will take you on a brief introduction through my childhood up to my young adulthood. Touching on some of the trials and tribulations I have encountered and how they have contributed to my resilience’s. How my life’s journey has caused influenced my desire to obtain a career in criminal psychology Concluding, with the goals that success in grad school will help me attain in the remainder of my life.…
We go through many stages in our childhood that help develop a sense of who we are. Its starts off with physical things such as recognizing ourselves as a separate being from others. This is shown though mirror recondition first, then as we begin to speak we learn to refer to ourselves by using pronouns. Preschoolers begin in the stage of initiative versus guilt, typically find themselves in the things they are capable of doing. When they move into the school age they move into the industry versus inferiority stage, this leads to more complex thing and comparing themselves to their peers. Then they move into the identity versus role confusion stage during adolescents, where they are able to describe different sides to themselves as well as…
From the date of childbirth and lying in the hospital bed while a mother gently cradles a baby in her arms, to the day a person may find himself lying six feet under; there has become an apparent process which every human must proceed through in order to truly and fully grow up. This process may be called the stages of life, and there are three major steps that an individual must overcome: childhood, college, and having a family.…
“Shit,” said the ten-year-old little girl when she got a paper cut flipping through the pages of a teen magazine. Thinking it was cute her mother simply laughed. Why is this behavior accepted in today’s culture? The idea of “ten going on sixteen” is a scary yet relatively true notion; children are young and impressionable, and they want to be “grown-up”. The world has changed and culture is extremely different than it was fifty years ago; the causes are problematic and the effects are ghastly. Ridiculous beauty pageants, questionable role models, and inadequate parenting fuel the fire of tweendom. I, myself, have experienced the effects of tweendom not only through personal experience but also through my younger sister. Children experience bullying, peer pressure, and judgment every day. One should think about how this affects their loved ones. As I get older I see the transition of becoming a tween much more detrimental to today’s future children than ever before.…
The arduous task of planting flowers symbolized more to me than dirt, frustration, and flowers. However, at the time it was just a difficult objective to plant daffodils on a Saturday morning when I could have stayed home and pursued my usual quest of ruining my eyesight by watching long durations of my favorite cartoons. However, my father had different plans that day as I was dragged out of my house to go help him plant daffodils for a charity case. He told me that this particular project symbolized new beginnings and a sense of unity throughout the neighborhood. Of course all that was resonated to me was labor and missing out on watching some my dearest superheroes fight off evil. Little did I know that this particular event in my life would cause a dramatic change in the way I proceeded to work, think about goals, and think about what it means to actually accomplish goals I set out for myself?…
My full name is Christina Kaysone Chantharavongsa and I was born March 23, 1995 in Bridgeport Hospital located in Bridgeport, Connecticut. It was a little city and a small world since a ton of people would know each other. My parents were in an arranged marriage and were both moved to the United States from Laos during their high school years. But I’m actually half Laotian and Thai since my mom’s side is Thai from Thailand although she was born in an Asian Southeastern country called Laos. I’m the second oldest out of four children with two sisters and one brother. The order goes from Sarah, Christina (me), Kenny, and Anita. From my very first baby photo, I was described as a giant tomato because my face was red like one. My first words were like any baby can typically say: mama. Since my parents spoke mostly Laotian at home, saying mama would be “maeh” (Language Development). My infant years around 2 or 3, I was considered a curious one. I’d always liked to climb on top of chairs to see what were on the tables and I tended to dig through drawers to see what kind of items I would find in there then chew on it. My favorite thing to chew on was a Barbie doll ( Piagment, Sensorimotor stage). I was pretty clumsy as a toddler and my parents weren’t very affectionate towards me (Trust vs. Mistrust). I remember then until now we had strained relationships. If I did anything wrong or if any of my siblings did, they would hit us as punishment. Wooden spoons were usually used, getting our hair pulled, and getting the side of our face smacked or punched.…
Being an adult means develop an identity unique, since, to become an adult is not something that just instantaneously occur when people are in a certain age. Due to that, life has different stages where people can involve important aspects in order to become adults such as have independence, get responsibilities and make the decision to get married.…
Also with becoming an adult you find out who you are, and your identity in this age group. One will fall into one of Marcia’s identity statues: identity diffusion, identity foreclosure, moratorium, and identity achievement. With finding out who you are and taking on new challenges in this stage you are consistently moving backward and forwards. Than after you have figured out who you want to be, you look for love and a career. Early adulthood in my opinion is the most important and best time of your life.…
What does make you a grown-up? Is it moving out of the house? Hitting a certain age? Having a relationship? Getting a job? How is it that we can do those things, that we consider to be “adult”, but we still feel like kids? Or that we feel like grown-ups, we're certainly old enough, but we haven't seemed to have accomplished any of those things “grown-ups” have done?…
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