Learning Experience Paper
When experiences in life happen, we learn from them. They can be positive or negative learned experiences but none the less we learn what works or what doesn’t. All experiences create responses within us. Those responses can be conditioned or unconditioned. Learning from your experiences growing up allows for the growth of yourself through the perception of what you feel has changed you as a person. Self-reflection after experiences happened shows you how they affected you and what you can do to change that learned behavior or response.
My Learning Experience and Response
Growing up my parents were abusive to each other and us children. When arguments between my parents would occur my bedroom was the battle ground. My father seemed to think that threatening his life and asking me to “Kiss him goodbye.” Would keep my mother around. When she finally got the courage up to leave, she said it was because my little brother said how nice it was when my dad was on a hunting trip. Leaving my dad made my mother frightened and would tell us how she felt my father would kill us in our sleep, and she would go into detail often about what she felt he would do to us. Later my father’s family got involved, and they all came and beat up my family. My two younger brothers were crying and one still in an infant seat I had to take out and try to protect from them as they tried to grab them and run. Being the older child, it was more my responsibility to protect everyone as my mom gave me the keys to the house when she saw them all there when we arrived. I couldn’t help but wonder why she didn’t turn around the car. I had to set my brother down and run down the street for help. Leaving my brother, there was the hardest thing I had to do, but I had to get help. I then found my uncle in the field with a rifle; he started to run at me, and I finally reached the