One thing that I learned in the interview assignment is how different things are for teens today compared to teenagers years ago. The woman I interviewed is probably around 85 years old, and she said that back then money wasn’t as a big a deal – she had to make her own fun. Her friends would often walk, bike, or skate to get places and they would play softball or go ice-skating depending on the weather. Going out to movies was rare and was usually set aside for dates. Now a days we’re always driving ourselves around and could go to the movies as often as we want, as long as we have money. We also tend to date more too. Vi started dating a senior at the end of her sophomore year of high school and then married him a couple years later. Most people today have a few relationships in high school and in college before getting married, I think it’s really interesting to see how much things have changed, but I think I’d prefer to be a teenager in the present-day, just because we have a lot of exciting opportunities available to us.
I think the “Parenting and Adolescence” video made a lot of sense. When I was younger I would fight with my parents a lot, usually over small things, but now the same issues are not a big deal. I think my time as an adolescent was a little different than some, just because my dad has always had a lot of health issues and there has always been extra stress in the house because of that. I think that all of my experiences will in some way have an impact on who I am as an adult because some of them have showed me what’s truly important in life and have defined me as person.
In Chapter 4 I learned about gender schemas. I thought it was really interesting how young children learn behaviors that are typically characterized to their gender i.e. girls play should play with dolls and boys should play with trucks. I had never really given it a whole lot of thought before – I figured part of had to do with the toys their parents gave them to play with, but really its more about what the children observe that makes them think they need to act a certain way and play with kids of the same gender.
In chapter 5 I learned about how we develop cognitively from infants to adults. Toddlers and small children are constantly active in trying to reason and learn about the world around them, and they do this by making schemas or mental molds of their experiences. As we all get older we form countless schemas that allow us to reason better than younger children. I thought this was interesting to think about it, because again I’ve never really thought about why we develop the way we do, and this chapter has answered a lot of questions I never even realized I had.
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I think that is so cute that she found her husband at 15. That defineatly is rare now-a-days:)I do think that with your dad's health issues and the fact that he's probably a lot older than most kid's parents your age, you've had to grow up differently. You had to grow up fast you had no choice. But in the end I think it will make you a better person. YOu'll be able to handle a lot more things than other people can. You Rock!
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