...Growing Up Paper 3/31/2014 Parenting comes with a magnitude of struggles, from teaching your children right from wrong to helping them learning through experience, even if it’s through mistakes. Parents and grandparents have a lot in common starting with their love for the children in their lives. Unfortunately that doesn't always stop grandparents and parents from bickering about a variety of issues, especially about the guidelines of the child’s life. In the memoir Growing Up, by Russell Baker, Russell’s grandmother, Ida Rebecca, and his mother, Lucy Elizabeth disagreed on most everything due to a clash in ideals and generations. Russell Baker had a tough life, but succeeded, probably because of his mother’s constant hectoring. Lucy Elizabeth always wanted her children to be successful in life. To her, that meant that they needed to make a name for themselves through business. As a child, Russell constantly was told to make something of himself. From a young age, Lucy Elizabeth was very driven. She often speaks highly of her Papa and how he was “a good man.” He was her model of excellence. Although Papa failed at succeeding in life, he never gave up. She wanted her to brothers and her husband to turn out like the good man her father once was. When they failed to make some she turned to her children to make something of themselves. Russell talks about how his mother despised inactivity and was forced to start working at the age of eight so that he was able to keep up...
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...Growing Up Growing up is like a big adventure. You experience good and bad stuff. You discover yourself, find out what you’re good at and what you’re not that good at. Growing up brings a lot of difficult choices. All of these choices will affect your future. For instance I think the most difficult choice you have to make in the early years is finding out what you want to work with or as when you get older. Because what if you don’t choose the right thing? What if you as young didn’t stop playing piano? Because you were forced by your parents, maybe you could have been a brilliant pianist today. What if you choose a linguistic field of study just to see your best friend or girlfriend every day? Even though you were more mathematical. That’s already two “mistakes” you have made, first of all by not having discovered your talents, because you gave up to quickly and second of all because you prioritized your loved ones way higher than your education. To make the right choices you prioritize a lot of great things to get the result you want. I’m not saying that if you choose the wrong things, you’ll never do the things you like or have the life you wanted. Of course there’s a great chance you’ll end up having a perfect life, but it might just not be the life you expected. All these choices can be extremely difficult, and the chance of you being spot on, in every choice you make, is very low. Growing up is a broad concept. My definition of growing up starts when you’re born...
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...Topic of your choice essay: Growing up Over the years there have been noticeable changes in the way some of us have grown up. When I was growing up there was a thing called discipline, at which you don’t see much of anymore. The amounts of the homeless people have grown and foster homes were around, but not like now. In the new decades there are more and more children growing up without parents and they are sent to foster homes. Also, when I was younger technology was at a stand-still. Discipline was used when I grew up. There was no such thing as back talking without getting back-handed or a bar of soap in your mouth. Nowadays there are so many undisciplined children it is ridiculous. At the same time if they are to try and discipline a child, there is more of a chance you can get into trouble by the law. Temper tantrums were not even tolerated, now if you walk into a store you are almost guaranteed to see a kid having a temper tantrum. Everyone these days know of ‘Foster Homes.’ Growing up they were around, but not widely used. There are a lot of children these days that have no parents, or are taken from their parents due to neglect. Back in the 60’s or 70’s they were around, but not as common as they are now. Even the amounts of homeless people have grown tremendously over the years. You will tend to see more homeless children than ever before! Another change that there has been growing up, is the advancement of technology. Do you remember pagers...
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...Growing up To grow up is a concept that I find hard to explain. It’s hard to draw a line between the process of growing up and be a grown up, suddenly you just are. When I was a little girl, I always dreamt about how it would be when I grew up and became a big girl. Now I find it hard to tell where time went and how I became the person I am today. When you grow up, you will gradually take more responsibility of yourself and the people around you. Your parents will let you make your own decisions as you grow older and you will notice that maybe it was easier when your parents made the decisions for you. When you grow up, you take the blame if you screw up and you learn from your mistakes so you won’t do them again. Things happen in your life that can affect you, and maybe also be a factor in the concept growing up. Death, divorce, and also positive experiences like trips and happy times. Some experiences will make you more mature, probably because you will think thoughts that you haven’t thought before and have feelings that you haven’t felt in the past. In a way I think it’s a little sad that everybody grows up. When I was a little girl I thought that everything was an adventure. Even when I was sitting in the car and my mother was about to drive me to kindergarten I thought it was so exciting just to sit in the car. And then when I asked my mother “Isn’t it just the best to drive mother?” She said “I don’t know, I do it every day”. When you get older you don’t appreciate...
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...hide vodka in his thermos at nine and Tammy's parents kicked her out last night after 13 years of hell. As for me, I only had to watch two people I care about destroy 12 years of Brady Bunch love and family values with one signature and a lawyer's bill for $5,000. My parents got divorced when I was 12 and I thought my life had come to an end. My mom left my younger brother and sister and me with my father in a huge house and took her Home Interior with her. A selfish 12-year-old, I wondered how Christmas would be with only one income and who would bake cookies before I came home from school. But it was not long before I realized that my mom took more than her silk flowers and ceramic owls. She took our favorite tutor, our maid to clean up after us and our mother to give us our daily support and comforting. Suddenly, all of these roles were to be replaced by me. Of course I wanted to help my father ease into his new role as Mr. Mom, but I never wanted to become a very young mother of two. The greatest challenge that faces me as a teenager, and continues to face children, is learning when to act like a child and when it's necessary to become an adult. When a 14 year-old child becomes pregnant, does it mean that she automatically becomes an adult, able to make her own decisions? When a child is kicked out of his home because of his incorrigible behavior, does it mean that he is expected to get a job, an apartment, and a checking account at the local bank? When a child...
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...Fo r Te a ch er s Growing up in Zambia A Teachers’ Guide to Civic Education Camfed has created a new and innovative resource pack for the teaching and learning of Civic Education. It combines three books: this teachers’ guide, a student workbook and a collection of stories and photographs entitled Listen to My Story. We hope that together, they will inspire a high level of creativity in classrooms across Zambia. Civic Education is a key aspect of the school curriculum and one that prepares pupils for a productive and fulfulling life. The resource pack addresses issues of great concern to children and young people as they grow up in our society. A particular focus is gender and issues of inequality in Zambia. Many of the stories, photographs and activities enable boys and girls to reflect on the influences on their lives that shape their choices. English skills, literacy, and other elements of the curriculum are also supported and the sessions in the pack are designed to show how life and learning converge to change people’s futures. I hope that the many Zambian teachers and students who use this rich resource will benefit from the stories, and that the interactive and reflective activities will stimulate interest and learning in different local settings. Every child has the right to education. Yet in Zambia, as in many other countries around the world, millions of children, especially girls, are excluded from school. We often hear the statistics, but it is rare for those...
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...Sherry Turkle's’ “Growing Up Tethered” examines the use of technology in the lives of young people and the many ways they are emotionally latched to technology to make and often break their connections with others. Sherry Turkle discusses how technology has made is unable to interact with others, yet able to react with technology to reach them. She dives into the many ways young people use it to connect, cope, practice, and often deceive other in social interaction. From social media to simulating everyday life people have become dependent on technology to seek connection emotionally. On the other hand Jane McGonigal's “Becoming a part of something bigger than Ourselves” praises the connections made via technology. McGonigal places famous...
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...Nate Arthun History 102-04 Professor Dunlop November 23, 2010 Growing up in Hell Ernst Jüger was a German soldier during World War I that wrote down his experiences that he and his men encountered over the course of the war. Throughout the book Jüger makes references to the perceptions he has of himself, his men, and the enemy as the conditions of war rumble down, causing increasingly dire circumstances. As Jüger tells his tale, the reader begins to notice a growth in Jüger as a person due to the tragedies that befall him and the men around him. Jüger goes from a young man seeking glory, seeing as war is something to be proud of to him, to being a hardened veteran who has seen the horrors of what war actually brings. Also described is how the war goes from seemingly being winnable and Germany holding its own, to being taken down by a superior force in the British forces. This growth gives a historical account of living in the German army out on the Western Front that is at the same time so personal. In the beginning of the war when Jüger was a fresh recruit, his fellow soldiers and him were excited to be out in the battlefield talking of “No finer death in all the world than…” This shows how in the beginning war was seen as a glorified engagement that they sought and hungered for. Although the fresh recruits seemed to want this glory that comes with war, that mentality would soon be shocked from their minds as war reared its ugly head when the first shells began landing...
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...Mosby 1 Raising a child from a baby to an adult who is a positive contribution to society is a very rewarding experience for parents who can accomplish this ever difficult task. Kids today are bombarded with multiple distractions when it comes to the internet. This form of media communication can be very confusing and dangerous for many youngsters due to the prevalence of those who allow and accept inappropriate behavior through the use of pictures, video images and language usage. Many youngsters feel that they live in two worlds, the real world in which they live and the internet world where they can create a false persona. They enter into a domain where practically anything goes and no one is in charge. That is why parents should think more about their kids as being willing participants than as being innocent victims. Internet usage is at an all time high and will continue to increase in the future as more cultures are exposed to the capabilities of the internet. Technological advancements have led to some negative impacts on today’s youth through the increased usage of the internet. One area that the internet has impacted negatively is through plain old fashioned communication, there is no face- to-face interaction required when using the internet. In some households, like Greg’s, the family dynamics are affected and are usually changed and modified to accommodate the lack of face-to- face communication. Greg...
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...Growing Up Bilingual Growing up knowing more than one language has many advantages but then again people do face challenges. An advantage in being bilingual would be the obvious of getting a job adding to that would be the salary being received. Another up would be being able to travel to where your second language is spoken and not feeling like an outcast. Now having that in mind if you are an immigrant that has recently moved somewhere where your native language is not spoken that would be a problem because now you would feel like an outcast. On top of being an outcast you have no way of communicating with anyone because your native language is, let us say Spanish, and you live in Houston where the dominate language is English. But, after a while you learn your second language and can start passing up your downs and receive your advantages of being bilingual. As your growing up your learning your “new” language but before that you were “socially disadvantaged” as said in Richard Rodriguez’s “A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood”. This is said to be a disadvantage, not of being bilingual but it is the step you have to take before being able to be considered bilingual. As Rodriguez stated in his short story he was also the “problem student” only because he was not completely familiar with this new language he eventually had to take up. His family was also part of being “socially disadvantage” they hardly knew any English and had trouble communicating with their surrounding...
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...Growing Up Online Michelle Krueger I agree with regards to the video Growing up on line produced and directed by Rachel Dretzin. This video discuss the advantages and disadvantages of children’s having open access to internet and the problems it has caused at home, school, social media as well as ing. Whilst everyone is entitle to their opinions, I feel strongly agree with the negative consequences. I would therefore like to explain in more details the arguments about this video. As I mentioned before, the open access to internet for children’s has brought some negative consequences. First, at home we see how children’s lock their selves in the room to use the computer and most of the times when parents walk into the room they want to change their screen or hide what there are doing. The reason behind this is because they had found a different world where they can be and act in a way that they wouldn’t in front of their parents and their friends. They find people who they can’t talk to about eating disorders, sex preferences, family problems, among other topics without been judge. They also feel more free and outgoing on the internet. This are negative reactions and consequences because we should be able to talk to our parents or someone close to us every time that we need to. We will get better advice from someone that is part of our life’s and care for us rather than form a stranger. Second, internet...
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...Growing up as a child with ADHD in school is very difficult; I tried to pay attention in class, but every little thing distracted me. I even had trouble sitting in my seat throughout the entire school day. I would attempt to study for tests and would not be able to because everything seemed to distract me; I had to learn to focus. I was diagnosed with ADHD in first grade. Before I was diagnosed, the teachers literally told my mother that I was “un-teachable”. I struggled with focusing for a long time and it was not until high school that I learned to study for tests and assignments. Most people can study in their bedrooms, often while they are doing other things —like listening to music. In order for me to study, I have to turn off all other distractions and be in silence. I will often go into my basement to be completely alone and force myself to stay focused to study. Over the years, I have learned many ways to cope with the constant distractions and difficulty focusing. Most of the time, I try to think about how important the thing I[m trying to accomplish is, and the positive and negative outcomes of letting myself get distracted and not finishing the task. I try to think about what would happen if I am not able to complete that task, and what that ultimate impact would be. Other times, I attempt to make it fun for myself by turning the task into a game. Most of the time I get myself to focus by thinking about my dreams and goals of attending college and starting...
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...Growing up Epileptic June of 1980 is the year I was born. It was a time when Neurologist did not know much about Epilepsy. Born to a mother who did not know how to handle a child, every time she would pick me up or move me in any way, I would not stop crying. How do people deal with things or people that are different from what they know? In the same case, those that are different from the majority, how do they grow up in a world where they are treated as outcast? This is my story, a story of a girl who always felt like an outcast, and has used it to her advantage. As a child, my mother and I would drive every few weeks to Children’s Hospital in Seattle, WA, for routine exams. For the most part, the procedures consisted of a scan or a simple test where I would have to visualize something and describe what I saw. The only problem was I did not know how to visualize something without seeing a picture of it first. Other times I was blindfolded. I was instructed to select items that had the same shape and place them in a box. This procedure became my favorite because I found a way to cheat. More so, this lead to my fascination of doing things blindfolded or with my eyes closed. No matter what it was, I spent a lot of my youth sitting in a hospital waiting for the doctor to show up or having someone draw my blood for more test. I disliked having my blood drawn, so I would always ask for the butterfly. It takes longer but the needle is a quarter of an inch long compared to...
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...Growing up in Haiti, which is one of the poorest and most dangerous countries in the world, my hope for a better life was an undying hopelessness feeling. For as long I can remember, I have always wanted to become a scientist because I want my life to have a positive impact on my surroundings. But as a kid, I never thought I could ever accomplish such success because resources were scarce. But, my eager to learn was what kept me living by refraining joining a gang or getting depressed like some of my childhood friends did. Instead, I would rather spend time reading on my own due to the fact my father could not afford to send me to school. However, when I did attend school, I used to earn the highest GPA or receive one of the top 3 highest GPA...
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...In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Jem Finch start figuring out his role in life while trying to be an older brother to Scout and while trying to protect Atticus and start to become the man in the house. When Jem starts to grow up he starts to talk less and do less with Scout during the summer because he wanted to have fun with Dill instead of hanging out with his little sister. “Jem’s growing’ up. He’s gonna want to be off to himself a lot now, doin’ whatever boys do (Lee 154).” He later realizes that he just wanted to hang out and do boy things instead for a while. Jem needs to figure out things before he can be a good older brother and that is a big part of growing up. Scout and Atticus soon realize that Jem is growing...
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