Death in families

In each family they deal with death diffrently then another family. People indivifually in each family deal with it diffrently. People can fight with eachother or become closer it depends on how they deal with it themselves. Usually people will become close then slowly grow apart again.

Now vs. 80 years from now

In life now how many people do you actually see taking care of their own family memebers. In 80 years lets hope that we see more people trying to keep their family members home. The treatment of elderly people with in home care are not always better taken care of but in most cases yes they are. People should look at how they want to be treated as they grow older and see where they would want to be to finnish the rest of their lives. I know that I want to live my life out at home instead of living in a nursing home. All of my family members feel that way so think about how your family memebers fill. Lets hope that people pay more attention to what their family members want and help to make them happen. I know that not everyone can make it happen but if you atleast try and show the compation and if they have to go in a nursing home atleast pay attention to them and show them that you still care and do as much as possible.

American life

The fact that people strugle with day to day life is sad to see. I think that alot of it is lack of prioritising and alot with people have way to much going on in their lives. We dont all choose what we have going on and I can tell you that from experience. I have now taken on taking care of my grandmother due to her not allowing anyone else to help her with anything. I wish that she would have stayed healthier until I got done with school but this is why I am going to school to take care of my family and close friends as they get older. I think that it is sad that in family life both parents have to work just to make ends meet and most the time they dont even make the ends meet and the whole family is running around trying to make their lives function because both parents are working. When both parents work that puts alot more responsibility on a child at a younger age making the child grow up faster then they used to have to. It's hard to have a child or children in society today because we have created a place where everyone is always on the go and always has something to do or somewhere to be.

divorce vs. non divorce

The article about children and divorce made me think about my childhood and the effect it had on me as a child when I was at a friends house and her parents always fought. I was always greatfull that my parents were still married but I also knew from being around my friends house and hearing her parents fight when they thought we couldnt hear them that i never wanted to hear my parents like that it was horrible on my friend and it ended up she was always at my house so she didnt have to be stuck listening to it. In the end she still to this day says she wishes her parents would have divorced when she was a child. But i also agree that parents are giving up to easily anymore if they deside that they just are bord anymore it seems that is enough reason to get a divorce instead of trying to figure out what really is the problem. Children can have pros and cons for their parents being together or divorced it all depends on the reasonings and how the parents deal with it and how they talk to their child about it. I think parents should always rememeber children hear alot more then we think and they also understand what we are saying or atleast make their own conclutions of what they think we are saying.

chapters 8 and 9

Chapters 8 and 9 were hard for me to relate to. I have had amazing parents and amazing friends growing up as a child to adulthood. Most people don't experience having the same group of friends from birth through the rest of their lives. The one thing that I could relate with was that your peers and family being positive can help with how you feel about yourself and how you look at yourself. I know that because of the friends and family I have I look at myself in a way more positive way then i would without them because they are 100% my support and I can lean on them and tell them things and they tell me if i shouldnt do something or if i handled something wrong but they also stand by me with what i choose because they are true friends.

Childhood

There are alot of things that are happening through childhood but when you have a dissability like ADHD( yes i called it a dissability) it makes being a child even harder then it already is to be a child it makes it so that children with ADHD suffer because other children dont always like them and most the time they are pushed away from other children and they also lack in the ability to learn like other children. I cant explain how hard a child with ADHD has it trying to grow up dealing with it.

Things that are shown to have an effect of childrens development

The chapters 4 and 5 reading made me think about how children in different cultures are being raised and how we are being raised in the united states and in turn made me realise that there are a lot of similar things that happen. One of the things that is similar is how a mother, father or parental figure treats or responds to a child is the basis of how that child is going to grow up and the traits that they have in many different areas of their lives. Also the environment and cultural settings have alot to do with parts of the child growing up as they explained in the book a child from one culture will be passive and the other culture would not be in certain situations. Religious beliefs play into a child up bringing as well as all the other factors involved. So in turn i think that a child is effected by all aspects of life and each part plays an important roll in the up bringing of a child in today's world.

Children learning to walk

In chapters 2 and 3 i thought that the process of how a child grows and learns to sit, crawl and walk is amazing in how much it actually takes them to get to those points in their lives. The different things that they have to go through and how their balance and everything about them changes at every step of the way. A child has so many things to learn and explore with their bodies and movements that its amazing on the thought process that it entails for them to learn any of it including walking and how they have proven that babies understand moving their legs in alternating patterns long before they learn to walk.